The Road to Ukraine: How the West Lost its Way

Frank Furedi

Published by De Gruyter 2022

The Road to Ukraine

How the West Lost its Way

Frank Furedi

Volume 2 in the series De Gruyter Disruptions

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110981544

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About this book

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is the latest chapter in a series of events that have their origins in World War One. The difficult existential questions that emerged before and during this conflict still remain unresolved. Contrary to the claim that wars are not supposed to happen in Europe or that we live in the era of the End of History, the experience of Ukraine highlights the salience of the spell of the past. The failure of the West to take its past seriously has left it confused and unprepared to deal with the current crisis. Unexpectedly fashionable claims about the irrelevance of borders and of nation states have been exposed as shallow myths. The author argues that the West’s self-inflicted condition of historical amnesia has encouraged it to disregard the salience of geo-political realities. Suddenly the once fashionable claims that made up the virtues of globalisation appear threadbare. This problem, which was already evident during the global Covid pandemic has reached a crisis point in the battlefield of Ukraine. History has had its revenge on a culture that believes that what happened in the past no longer matters. The Road To Ukraine: How the West Lost Its Way argues that overcoming the state of historical amnesia is the precondition for the restoration of global solidarity.

Author / Editor information

Frank Furedi, Professor Emeritus University of Kent in Canterbury, UK.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Chapter 1: The Revenge of History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 2: In Search of Legitimacy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Chapter 3: Ukraine and the Enduring Salience of Nationhood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
Chapter 4: Presentism and the Loss of the Sense of the Past Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Chapter 5: Ukraine – A Focus for Moral Redemption Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
Chapter 6: Ukraine and the Myth of the Great Reset Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars and students of Politics, Sociology and Political Geography; policy makers.
Pages
- Front matter: 11
- Main content: 102
Keywords: Ukraine; War in Ukraine; World War One; World War; 1914-1918; Historical Amnesia

eBook

Published: August 1, 2022
ISBN: 9783110981544

Hardcover

Published: September 6, 2022
ISBN: 9783110995626

Paperback

Published: September 20, 2022
ISBN: 9783110996944