Atminties tapatumai: istoriškumo dilemos ir pasirinkimų retorika
Memory identities: dilemmas of historicity and rhetoric of choices

Summary/Abstract: Identity quests remain actual even in the 21st century. Selfhood investigations based on traditional approaches by little are turning into a historical memory “science”. Loss of general humanitarian posture, new destabilization tendencies and all pervasive turmoil determine new standpoints. Positive attitudes towards self and others, forbearance and diversity of opinions, propagation of values, ability to construct world with no meaningless exaltation and self-importance – these are the most important required puzzles of today. Now tasks being raised for little nations are not little ones. Profanation of self-identity under covers of idealistic strivings, stimulation of victim thinking and continuous stress on otherness as certain exclusiveness limit historical imagination and create expression of only seeming responsibility, self-esteem and pride. It is not a coincidence that respectable bearing based on rationality as well as sarcastic, ironic interpretation of facts, importance of humor, discoveries based on intuition, volition and sensitivity – all so praised by romanticism – come back into international circulation.

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