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Title [en]
Writing and Thinking at the Margins: A Philosophical Strategy to Resist Totalitarianism in Post-War Eastern Europe
Abstract [en]
The aim of this project is to examine a philosophical strategy that is not overtly political, yet serves as resistance to totalitarian ideology: a way of philosophical thinking and writing at the margins of dogmatic forms of totalitarian political ideology and totalizing systems of thought after the Second World War. We will investigate this strategy in the works of Hannah Arendt, Merab Mamardashvili and Alexandru Dragomir. By paying attention to their way of writing and developing thoughts on writing under the constrains of oppression, we connect Dragomir’s and Mamardashvili’s philosophy with Arendt’s critique of totalitarianism and her own exercise of writing notes. The main research questions are: 1. How do Mamardashvili, Dragomir and Arendt write thoughts and think writing as a form of resistance at the margins of totalitarian ideology? 2. How does this form of resistance enhances the understanding of resistance in Eastern Europe during the communist era? 3. How do these forms of writing and thinking imply a particular critique of modern philosophy and its tendency to build totalizing systems of thought? The project constitutes a gateway to retrieve an often over-looked legacy of resistance among East European philosophers in the communist era, and it contributes to the knowledge of the intellectual history of the region.
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Schuback, M. S. (2024). Ambiguity. In: Michael Marder, Giovanbattista Tusa (Ed.), Contemporanea: a glossary for the twenty-first century (pp. 241-247). Cambridge: MIT Press
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2024 (English)In: Contemporanea: a glossary for the twenty-first century / [ed] Michael Marder, Giovanbattista Tusa, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2024, p. 241-247Chapter in book (Other academic)
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Cambridge: MIT Press, 2024
National Category
Philosophy
Research subject
Baltic and East European studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-55737 (URN)9780262547628 (ISBN)9780262378086 (ISBN)
Funder
The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies, 22-PR2-0019_OS
Available from: 2024-11-27 Created: 2024-11-27 Last updated: 2025-10-07Bibliographically approved
Schuback, M. S. (2024). Modets anarki. In: Torbjörn Elensky, Pella Kågerman, Bosse Lindquist, Daniel Pedersen, Kuba Rose, Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback (Ed.), Värdet av integritet: Sex essäer om att riskera något (pp. 65-81). Täby: 2066
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2024 (Swedish)In: Värdet av integritet: Sex essäer om att riskera något / [ed] Torbjörn Elensky, Pella Kågerman, Bosse Lindquist, Daniel Pedersen, Kuba Rose, Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback, Täby: 2066 , 2024, p. 65-81Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Täby: 2066, 2024
National Category
Philosophy General Literature Studies
Research subject
Baltic and East European studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-55742 (URN)9789151989297 (ISBN)
Funder
The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies, 22-PR2-0019_OS
Available from: 2024-11-27 Created: 2024-11-27 Last updated: 2025-10-07Bibliographically approved
Principal InvestigatorLane, Tora
Co-InvestigatorRat, Ramona
Co-InvestigatorSchuback, Marcia Sá Cavalcante
Coordinating organisation
Södertörn University
Funder
Period
2023-01-01 － 2025-12-31
Keywords [sv]
Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning
Keywords [en]
Baltic and East European studies
National Category
General Literature StudiesPhilosophy
Identifiers
DiVA, id: project:7237Project, id: 22-PR2-0019_OS

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