
The Road to Ukraine
How the West Lost its Way
Frank Furedi(Author)
De Gruyter (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 20. September 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
XI, 102 pages
978-3-11-099694-4 (ISBN)
Description
Russia's invasion of Ukraine is the latest chapter in a series of events that have their origins in World War One. The difficult existential questions that emerged before and during this conflict still remain unresolved. Contrary to the claim that wars are not supposed to happen in Europe or that we live in the era of the End of History, the experience of Ukraine highlights the salience of the spell of the past. The failure of the West to take its past seriously has left it confused and unprepared to deal with the current crisis. Unexpectedly fashionable claims about the irrelevance of borders and of nation states have been exposed as shallow myths. The author argues that the West's self-inflicted condition of historical amnesia has encouraged it to disregard the salience of geo-political realities. Suddenly the once fashionable claims that made up the virtues of globalisation appear threadbare. This problem, which was already evident during the global Covid pandemic has reached a crisis point in the battlefield of Ukraine. History has had its revenge on a culture that believes that what happened in the past no longer matters.
The Road To Ukraine: How the West Lost Its Way
argues that overcoming the state of historical amnesia is the precondition for the restoration of global solidarity.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
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Klappenbroschur
Dimensions
Height: 23 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
Weight
194 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-11-099694-4 (9783110996944)
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Person
Frank Furedi
, Professor Emeritus University of Kent in Canterbury, UK.