{"id":37545,"date":"2026-10-12T11:13:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T11:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/ksiazek\/herito-nr-60-nowa-europa-srodkowa\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T11:50:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T11:50:01","slug":"herito-nr-60-nowa-europa-srodkowa","status":"publish","type":"ksiazek","link":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/wydawnictwo\/publikacje\/herito-nr-60-nowa-europa-srodkowa\/","title":{"rendered":"HERITO, No. 60: New Central Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Does Central Europe still exist?
And if so, who needs it, and what kind of future lies ahead?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Between the Baltic and the Adriatic, the Danube and the Dnieper, a quiet shift is under way. The old languages we used to describe the region have run their course; invoking Kundera no longer helps us make sense of the world, while no new grand narratives have emerged to take their place. A region until recently bound together by economic and cultural ties is now drifting along conflicting vectors: political, energy\u2011related, and identitarian. Competing narratives and ambitions are pulling it apart. Is Central Europe still a community of shared experience, or has it become little more than a geographical shorthand\u2014an empty shell, a term belonging to the realm of \u201cmeteorology\u201d, as Peter Handke once put it?
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We have invited writers from the Baltic to the Balkans to join us in searching for answers\u2014and for a new centre of Europe. Their voices speak of a need to belong, while also revealing the possible futures of a region increasingly shaped by conflict and tension.
In this issue, then, we ask not what Central Europe was, but what it is becoming: what stories circulate between its cities and across its borders, what conflicts and imaginaries are giving it shape, and what kind of future is beginning to emerge from them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Table of Contents<\/summary>\n


Jacek Purchla, East of the West. A Few Remarks
on the Phenomenon of Central Europe<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>
Rein Raud, Self-Reflections from the Third Zone<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>
Laurynas Vai\u010di\u016bnas, Beyond the Forest\u2019s Edge<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>
Nelly Bekus, The Future of Central Europe.
The Regional Semantics of Liberal Order<\/strong><\/strong>
<\/strong>Basil Kerski, Farewell to Nostalgia. How the
Space of Past Traumas Is Becoming
the New Heart of the Continent<\/strong><\/strong>
<\/strong>Felix Ackermann, Post-Central Europe<\/strong><\/strong>
<\/strong>Tomasz Markiewka, A Space of Mutual Attention<\/strong><\/strong>
<\/strong>Karolina \u0106wiek-Rogalska, Central Europe in Three Paintings<\/strong><\/strong>
<\/strong>Ziemowit Szczerek, You\u2019ve Got to Be Blind Not
to See Central Europe<\/strong><\/strong>
<\/strong>Andrij Lubka, Europe in Search of Its Own Centre<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>
Magda V\u00e1\u0161\u00e1ryov\u00e1, Our Hopes Were in Vain: Central
Europe\u2019s Fate Repeats Itself<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>
Sebastian Schaffer, The World of Tomorrow.
Visions from Central Europe<\/strong>
<\/strong>Monika Herceg, Central Europe \u2013 a New
Neighbourhood, a Borderland<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>
<\/strong>Paulina Ma\u0142ochleb, Against Compensatory History<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>
<\/strong>Wojciech Stanis\u0142awski, Zoya in Brown Tights<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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