7-8/2006
Critica de art? [Art criticism]

Theses on education and the experience of critical thought
The Bologna reforms embody a narrowly utilitarian turn in higher education policy and are more a cause for concern than for celebration. Boyan Manchev makes a philsophical plea for the university as "locus of the unconditionally political". [ more ]
"Mute" navigates the mediarchipelago; "Osteuropa" locates Khodorkovsky's Rubicon; "Samtiden" warns a species headed for self-destruction; "Ny Tid" goes gender neutral; "Dilema veche" considers fast-food religion and other less fashionable phenomena; "Vikerkaar" recommends social democracy as antidote to Estonia-ization; "Arche" has seen Lukashenka's economic policy somewhere before; "Revista Crítica" uses biography for empowerment; and "Ord&Bild" measures the distance between us and the living.

Green turnaround or business as usual in the global hothouse? Debating the politics of climate change. [more]
From the cartoon crisis and minaret ban to the multiculturalism debate: on the politics of post-secular Europe. [more]
European solidarity requires a common history that accommodates the experiences of East and West. [more]
"They have turned my book into another chapter of this fruitless debate." Jytte Klausen on her part in the cartoon crisis. [more]
From postmodernism to network culture. Kazys Varnelis on what that means for the democratic public sphere. [more]
Kafka's home city has a lot to hide; unpleasant truths about Prague are bad for business, writes James Hawes. [more]
In the twenty years since the fall of communism, literature has been lifting the fog settled over eastern central Europe. [more]
Eurozine's series of essays aims to provide an overview of diverse literary landscapes in Europe. Covered as yet: Croatia, Sweden, Austria, Estonia, Ukraine, Northern Ireland, Slovenia, the Netherlands and Hungary. [more]
Statement on "the arrogant self-justification of the collective massacre in Srebrenica", first published in 2005. [more]
Multimedia section including videos of past Eurozine conferences in Vilnius (2009) and Sibiu (2007). [more]