After the Fall: The Pursuit of Democracy in Central Europe

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• CONTENTS vii
• PREFACE xi
• INTRODUCTION Then and Now 1
• I POLITICS 11
• Chapter 1 Civil Society "As If" 13
• Chapter 2 Post-Totalitarian Politics 28
• Chapter 3 Ideology Ends Again 37
• Chapter 4 What's Left? What's Right? 52
• II LEADERSHIP 63
• Chapter 5 Havel to the Castle 65
• Chapter 6 Democratic Dialogue 74
• Chapter 7 Wałęsa: Washington or Piłsudski? 86
• III NATION 97
• Chapter 8 the Problem of Nationalism: on the Road to Harmony with the Minister of the Interior 99
• Chapter 9 the Dialectics of False Solutions 110
• Chapter 10 Europe 119
• IV RELIGION 139
• Chapter 11 the Church Against the State 141
• Chapter 12 the Jewish Question 155
• V THE ECONOMY 167
• Chapter 13 Anti-Economic Practices 169
• Chapter 14 on the Road to Capitalism? 185
• Chapter 15 History and Class Consciousness 196
• VI CULTURE 213
• Chapter 16 Against Despair 215
• Chapter 17 the Institutionalization of Cultural Imagination 227
• EPILOGUE Toward a New Civilized Social Order 238
• Bibliographic Note 253
• INDEX 257

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