‘Dionysian Socialism?’: The Korčula Summer School as Kurort of the New Left

Abstract This article explores and analyses several remarkable parallels between two unique cultural spaces, namely, that of the Korčula Summer School and that of the Kurorte – the Grand Spas of Central Europe. Though distinct from one another with respect to their historical as well as topographical locations within Europe, it is as cultural spaces that the two share their least apparent – but perhaps most significant – points of affinity. Just as Baden-Baden had served as the ‘summer capital of Europe’ for one set of cultural elites across political, linguistic and national boundaries, so did Korčula offer a space for cultural and intellectual exchange for philosophers from both sides of the Cold War. The article demonstrates how both of these spaces were marked by their shared internationalism, their political engagement, their privilege, their respective distance from daily social orders, and their intellectual intensity. Thus, it is suggested that Central-European Kurort culture – commonly considered a belle-époque phenomenon – did indeed survive the Great Wars, and found new expressions in a post-war, socialist context.

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Discourse Beyond Borders: Periodicals, Dissidents, and European Cultural Spaces

Journal of European Periodical Studies ◽

10.21825/jeps.v3i2.9715 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Carlos Reijnen

Keyword(s):

Cold War ◽

Public Sphere ◽

Eastern Europe ◽

Central Europe ◽

Spatial Perspective ◽

Central European ◽

East European ◽

European Public ◽

Cultural Spaces ◽

The Cold War

Émigré periodicals in Cold War Europe have long been considered isolated islands of Central and East European communities with limited relevance. In the second half of the Cold War, some of these periodicals functioned as crucial intersections of communication between dissidents, emigrants and Western European intellectuals. These periodicals were the greenhouses for the development of new definitions of Central Europe, Eastern Europe, and Europe at large. This article studies Cold War émigré periodicals from a spatial perspective and argues that they can be analysed as European cultural spaces. In this approach, European cultural spaces are seen as insular components of a European public sphere. The particular settings (spaces) within which the periodicals developed have contributed greatly to the ideas that they expressed. The specific limits and functions of periodicals such as Kultura or Svědectví [Testimony] have triggered perceptions of Central European and European solidarity. The originally Russian periodical Kontinent promoted an eventually less successful East European-Russian solidarity.

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An aerial archaeology training week, 15–22 June 1996, held near Siófok, Lake Balaton, Hungary

Antiquity ◽

10.1017/s0003598x00084039 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 70 (270) ◽

pp. 745-750 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Robert Bewley ◽

Otto Braasch ◽

Rog Palmer

Keyword(s):

Cold War ◽

Summer School ◽

Lake Balaton ◽

Central European ◽

The Cold War

The end of the Cold War in 1989 prompted the opening of central European skies that had been closed to archaeological air photography for decades. The occasion of a summer school in 1996 provided the opportunity to record some results from Hungary.

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Espionage and Exile

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474401104.001.0001 ◽

2016 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Phyllis Lassner

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Popular Culture ◽

Cold War ◽

Literary History ◽

Political Engagement ◽

The Political ◽

International Crises ◽

Popular Entertainment ◽

John Le Carre ◽

The Cold War

Espionage and Exile demonstrates that from the 1930s through the Cold War, British Writers Eric Ambler, Helen MacInnes, Ann Bridge, Pamela Frankau, John le Carré and filmmaker Leslie Howard combined propaganda and popular entertainment to call for resistance to political oppression. Instead of constituting context, the political engagement of these spy fictions bring the historical crises of Fascist and Communist domination to the forefront of twentieth century literary history. They deploy themes of deception and betrayal to warn audiences of the consequences of Nazi Germany's conquests and later, the fusion of Fascist and Communist oppression. Featuring protagonists who are stateless and threatened refugees, abandoned and betrayed secret agents, and politically engaged or entrapped amateurs, all in states of precarious exile, these fictions engage their historical subjects to complicate extant literary meanings of transnational, diaspora and performativity. Unsettling distinctions between villain and victim as well as exile and belonging dramatizes relationships between the ethics of espionage and responses to international crises. With politically charged suspense and narrative experiments, these writers also challenge distinctions between literary, middlebrow, and popular culture.

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The Unassailable Self: Freud's Image Among Post-war American Intellectuals

Psychoanalysis and History ◽

10.3366/pah.2017.0200 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

pp. 55-75 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Katherine Jenness

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Cold War ◽

External Force ◽

Sigmund Freud ◽

Human Being ◽

World War ◽

The Us ◽

Post War ◽

The Cold War ◽

The Way

This paper explores the way American intellectuals depicted Sigmund Freud during the peak of popularity and prestige of psychoanalysis in the US, roughly the decade and a half following World War II. These intellectuals insisted upon the unassailability of Freud's mind and personality. He was depicted as unsusceptible to any external force or influence, a trait which was thought to account for Freud's admirable comportment as a scientist, colleague and human being. This post-war image of Freud was shaped in part by the Cold War anxiety that modern individuality was imperilled by totalitarian forces, which could only be resisted by the most rugged of selves. It was also shaped by the unique situation of the intellectuals themselves, who were eager to position themselves, like the Freud they imagined, as steadfastly independent and critical thinkers who would, through the very clarity of their thought, lead America to a more robust democracy.

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The 1945 World Order – Process with «Open» Continuation

MGIMO Review of International Relations ◽

10.24833/2071-8160-2020-4-73-52-79 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 52-79

Author(s):

V. T. Yungblud

Keyword(s):

Cold War ◽

International Relations ◽

World Order ◽

International Order ◽

International Terrorism ◽

Bipolar Structure ◽

Political Processes ◽

The World ◽

Post War ◽

The Cold War

The Yalta-Potsdam system of international relations, established by culmination of World War II, was created to maintain the security and cooperation of states in the post-war world. Leaders of the Big Three, who ensured the Victory over the fascist-militarist bloc in 1945, made decisive contribution to its creation. This system cemented the world order during the Cold War years until the collapse of the USSR in 1991 and the destruction of the bipolar structure of the organization of international relations. Post-Cold War changes stimulated the search for new structures of the international order. Article purpose is to characterize circumstances of foundations formation of postwar world and to show how the historical decisions made by the leaders of the anti-Hitler coalition powers in 1945 are projected onto modern political processes. Study focuses on interrelated questions: what was the post-war world order and how integral it was? How did the political decisions of 1945 affect the origins of the Cold War? Does the American-centrist international order, that prevailed at the end of the 20th century, genetically linked to the Atlantic Charter and the goals of the anti- Hitler coalition in the war, have a future?Many elements of the Yalta-Potsdam system of international relations in the 1990s survived and proved their viability. The end of the Cold War and globalization created conditions for widespread democracy in the world. The liberal system of international relations, which expanded in the late XX - early XXI century, is currently experiencing a crisis. It will be necessary to strengthen existing international institutions that ensure stability and security, primarily to create barriers to the spread of national egoism, radicalism and international terrorism, for have a chance to continue the liberal principles based world order (not necessarily within a unipolar system). Prerequisite for promoting idea of a liberal system of international relations is the adjustment of liberalism as such, refusal to unilaterally impose its principles on peoples with a different set of values. This will also require that all main participants in modern in-ternational life be able to develop a unilateral agenda for common problems and interstate relations, interact in a dialogue mode, delving into the arguments of opponents and taking into account their vital interests.

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Introduction

10.1093/oso/9780198814337.003.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Jenny Andersson

Keyword(s):

Cold War ◽

Critical Systems Thinking ◽

Critical Systems ◽

Political Ideologies ◽

The Future ◽

History Of ◽

Post War ◽

The 1960S ◽

The Cold War ◽

Future Visions

The book proposes that the Cold War period saw a key debate about the future as singular or plural. Forms of Cold War science depicted the future as a closed sphere defined by delimited probabilities, but were challenged by alternative notions of the future as a potentially open realm with limits set only by human creativity. The Cold War was a struggle for temporality between the two different future visions of the two blocs, each armed with its set of predictive technologies, but these were rivaled, from the 1960s on, by future visions emerging from decolonization and the emergence of a set of alternative world futures. Futures research has reflected and enacted this debate. In so doing, it offers a window to the post-war history of the social sciences and of contemporary political ideologies of liberalism and neoliberalism, Marxism and revisionist Marxism, critical-systems thinking, ecologism, and postcolonialism.

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