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Le Sud-Est, une mariée en noir?
The South-East, a ”Black-Widow”?

Author(s): Mircea Muthu
Subject(s): Cultural history
Published by: Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai
Keywords: South-Eastern Europe; Balkanism; cultural identity; stereotypes; hostile imagination

Summary/Abstract: Starting from four examples, the article presents in brief the contribution that South-Eastern Europe can bring to the process of European re-integration, namely, the coalescence of the three cultural strata: archaic, medieval, and modern, thanks to which Europe can re-learn its past and re-evaluate its future projects; the connection, still alive, between ear and eye, between the oral and the written cultures; the conversion of negative into positive according to the model of apophatic Orthodox philosophy; the cosmopolitan Byzantine teachings that led to a true philosophy of survival on the basis of the unvanquishable equilibrium.

  • Issue Year: 2006
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 70-72
  • Page Count: 3
  • Language: French
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