| Society as a Department Store |
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Friday, November 1, 2002
2:30 PM
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Friday, November 1, 2002
4:00 PM
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Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
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| In his most recent book, Society as a Department Store (Lexington Books, 2002), the Polish philosopher Ryszard Legutko discusses the dilemma of Western intellectuals who sympathized with socialism's professed ethics but now are faced, on the one hand, with a bankrupt idea, and on the other with a liberalism driven to extremes. This dilemma is felt acutely in Central and Eastern Europe, where Western ideological fantasies such as Nazism and Marxism had been tested before. After fifty years of totalitarian rule, the societies in that region needed a period of healing to mend social bonds and reestablish values. However, as Western-inspired nihilism spreads and social solidarity breaks down, some of Central and Eastern Europe's former dissidents feel let down by the liberalism they once championed. Michael Novak and Christina Hoff Sommers will join Ryszard Legutko in this discussion. |
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| 2:15 p.m. |
Registration |
| 2:30 |
Welcome: |
Radek Sikorski, AEI and NAI |
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Presentation: |
Ryszard Legutko, Jagiellonian University |
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Speakers: |
Michael Novak, AEI |
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Christina Hoff Sommers, AEI |
| 4:00 |
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