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Critical Thinking in Slovakia After Socialism

Critical Thinking in Slovakia After Socialism

Larson, Jonathan

Hardcover

Series: Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe, Book 9

Literary CriticismEastern European HistorySocial Movements

ISBN10: 1580464378
ISBN13: 9781580464376
Publisher: Univ Of Rochester Pr
Published: Apr 15 2013
Pages: 260
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
Critical Thinking in Slovakia after Socialism interrogates the putative relationship between critical thought and society through an ethnographic study of civic discourse in post-1989 Slovakia.

Critical thinking is the civic virtue of a liberal democracy. Citizens who think for themselves, cooperate, and can agree to disagree are the hallmark of a self-governing society. People from undemocratic societies, however, are often believed to lack this virtue, because authoritarian regimes smother critical discourse through fear and dull critical thought through the control of information and propaganda. After the end of Communist rule in 1989, Westernagents of democratization and educational development chided the residents of the former Czechoslovakia for this deficiency, claiming that the Slovaks' inability to think critically was the reason the nation struggled to integrate with Western Europe.

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