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		<title>The Czech Nation and Its Past and Present Identity</title>
		<link>http://faustianeurope.wordpress.com/2009/09/06/the-czech-nation-and-its-past-and-present-identity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 14:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandr Kryl</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Czech]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[identity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[the modern concept of homogeneous nation to which the contemporary Czechs subscribe is, notwithstanding the belief of the Czechs to the contrary, exactly that – a modern ‘invention’ that cannot stand up to a more closer historical scrutiny<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faustianeurope.wordpress.com&blog=1368152&post=156&subd=faustianeurope&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Idea of Europe in the work of Denis de Rougemont and the French non-conformists</title>
		<link>http://faustianeurope.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/the-idea-of-europe-in-the-work-of-denis-de-rougemont-and-french-non-conformists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandr Kryl</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[language]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Denis de Rougemont was a main thinker of the so-called non-conformistes des années trente, a movement of young intellectuals that appeared in France at the beginning of the turbulent 1930s, in opposition to both the individualism of liberalism and the collectivism of the Soviet Russia. [1] The main bulk of their work was published between [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faustianeurope.wordpress.com&blog=1368152&post=120&subd=faustianeurope&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cosmopolitan Democracy and Its Failure in Providing a Political Identity</title>
		<link>http://faustianeurope.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/cosmopolitan-democracy-and-its-failure-in-providing-a-political-identity/</link>
		<comments>http://faustianeurope.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/cosmopolitan-democracy-and-its-failure-in-providing-a-political-identity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandr Kryl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cosmopolitanism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://faustianeurope.wordpress.com/?p=102</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The political theory in the 1980s was marked by the &#8217;struggle&#8217; between communitarians and liberals. This debate was waged in the name of local social embededdness in the first case and in the name of certain universal moral standards applicable to all human beings equally in the case of the latter (1). Cosmopolitanism, as one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faustianeurope.wordpress.com&blog=1368152&post=102&subd=faustianeurope&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>O Canada!</title>
		<link>http://faustianeurope.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/o-canada/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 20:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandr Kryl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe and the EU]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an old signoff of the Canadian CBC TV &#8211; an excellent example from which we should inspire in how to promote the unity of the European Union in the future!

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		<title>Sovereignty: The History of the Concept</title>
		<link>http://faustianeurope.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/sovereignty-the-history-of-the-concept/</link>
		<comments>http://faustianeurope.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/sovereignty-the-history-of-the-concept/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 23:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandr Kryl</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Althusius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bodin]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[republicanism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sovereignty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What is sovereignty? In general, it might be said that the sovereignty is always either &#8216;internal&#8217; or &#8216;external&#8217;, or de facto and de jure [1]. My primary concern in this essay will be to shed some light on the first of these &#8211; internal sovereignty. Indeed, it is entirely correct to say that sovereignty cannot [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faustianeurope.wordpress.com&blog=1368152&post=81&subd=faustianeurope&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A new European Treaty</title>
		<link>http://faustianeurope.wordpress.com/2007/10/25/a-new-european-treaty/</link>
		<comments>http://faustianeurope.wordpress.com/2007/10/25/a-new-european-treaty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandr Kryl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe and the EU]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ In the night from 19th to 20th October, the leaders of the 27 European countries agreed the proposed draft of the &#8216;Reform Treaty&#8217; which was being finalised in the preceding months after the heated July conference.
This agreement is a victory for all pro-Europeans, not because of the content itself, but mainly because it will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faustianeurope.wordpress.com&blog=1368152&post=70&subd=faustianeurope&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beauty of European languages</title>
		<link>http://faustianeurope.wordpress.com/2007/09/28/beauty-of-european-languages/</link>
		<comments>http://faustianeurope.wordpress.com/2007/09/28/beauty-of-european-languages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandr Kryl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe and the EU]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By the title I do not want to express any &#8216;ethnophilic&#8217; sentiment towards the languages of the old continent, I merely want to point out to the document  recently published by Brussels Studies and reported *here* by an excellent weblog A Fistful of Euros. The Brussels Studies&#8217; document considers an interesting trend that recently appeared [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faustianeurope.wordpress.com&blog=1368152&post=66&subd=faustianeurope&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Carl Schmitt, Aristotle and the concept of the political</title>
		<link>http://faustianeurope.wordpress.com/2007/09/23/carl-schmitt-aristotle-and-the-political/</link>
		<comments>http://faustianeurope.wordpress.com/2007/09/23/carl-schmitt-aristotle-and-the-political/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandr Kryl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Carl Schmitt, besides being one of the thinkers of the &#8216;conservative revolution&#8217; of the interwar Germany, was also notoriously infamous for being a &#8216;Hitler&#8217;s jurist,&#8217; thus one of those important intellectuals who provided the necessary legal framework for the brutish Nazi regime. Yet, our world is seldom such that individuals can be so simply categorized [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faustianeurope.wordpress.com&blog=1368152&post=64&subd=faustianeurope&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Site updates and the vote for &#8216;the European of the Year&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://faustianeurope.wordpress.com/2007/09/22/site-updates-and-the-vote-for-the-european-of-the-year/</link>
		<comments>http://faustianeurope.wordpress.com/2007/09/22/site-updates-and-the-vote-for-the-european-of-the-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 18:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandr Kryl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Affairs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, the section &#8216;About&#8217; has been updated and I have also added there some general information about the intended purpose of this blog, so some of the readers who are wondering whether there is any &#8216;purpose&#8217; behind at all might want to check it out. Besides that, the link section &#8216;EU blogging community&#8217; was expanded [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faustianeurope.wordpress.com&blog=1368152&post=59&subd=faustianeurope&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nietzsche on friendship and on the &#8216;tragedy of life&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://faustianeurope.wordpress.com/2007/09/21/nietzsche-on-friendship-and-on-the-tragedy-of-life/</link>
		<comments>http://faustianeurope.wordpress.com/2007/09/21/nietzsche-on-friendship-and-on-the-tragedy-of-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandr Kryl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ ‘Friendship’ is something to which we all probably would nod and we would say that we fully understand what is meant by it, but do we? Who are these ‘friends’ we think are around us? What do they mean to us and do these ‘friends’ of today really differ from people we only ‘know [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faustianeurope.wordpress.com&blog=1368152&post=54&subd=faustianeurope&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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