Post-Communism: the Emergence of the Post-National Intellectual
Postcomunismul: apariţia intelectualului post-naţional

Summary/Abstract: This study offers an outline of the differences in scope for the term in Eastern and Western Europe. After comparing the different roles assigned to intellectuals in France and East-Central Europe (later to be referred to as ‘the Soviet Bloc’), the study identifies specialisation as specific to Western intellectuals, while difficult and sometimes undesirable under communism. This (lack of) specialisation has a definite impact on the kind of reception East-Central European intellectuals had at home (where they were expected to offer their input under the guise of ‘fiction’) and in the West. It stresses the importance of a contemporaneous phenomenon: the emergence of a new type of intellectual who goes beyond the national confines of his / her culture, towards a more effective, international status.

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