Isolde Charim
(b. 1959) is a university lecturer and publicist. Her latest book is Der Althusser-Effekt. Entwurf einer Ideologietheorie, Vienna: Passagen Verlag 2002. In 2006, she received the award of the city of Vienna for science and culture.
Eurozine Articles
Historical myths new and old
Surrounding the sixtieth anniversary of WWII were arguments that the suffering of eastern Europe goes unacknowledged. By implication, the memory of the Holocaust is a hegemonic discourse within the EU, rather than its binding principle. Here, a new myth is in the making: victimhood divorced from political context. [Lithuanian version added] [more]
Culture as battlefield
A sea change in the public sphere has brought a "language of ethical demands", in which religion becomes the medium of conflict, writes Isolde Charim. [more]















