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History and Eastern Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2008

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The Institute for Human Sciences (Institut fur die Wissenschaften vom Menschen) was founded in Vienna in 1982 by a group of scholars from Eastern Europe and the West. The purpose of the Institute was to overcome the cultural and intellectual division of Europe by promoting conferences, seminars and research programmes. The latest report of the Institute stresses that the disappearance of the Iron Curtain has made the work of the Institute all the more important. As the authors of the report explain, ‘…the civil society which is reemerging in Eastern Europe will hardly be viable without living connections to the West and, equally, the Western world will be much poorer without the historical experiences of the East. The Institut fur die Wissenschaften vom Menschen views itself as a place where the experiences and perspectives of Eastern Europeans can be (re-) introduced into the Western discussion as a means of rousing, changing and broadening Western culture. Europe should be seen as a challenge: as a manifold, but also contradictory, intellectual and cultural unity.’

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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References

1 Institut fur die Wissenschaften vom Menschen 1986–1990. Report (Vienna, 1990), 5.Google Scholar

2 Michnik, Adam, ‘Notes on the Revolution’, Sunday New York Times Magazine, 11 March 1990, 3845.Google Scholar