Article Title：Imagining membership: The conception of Europe in the political thought of T. G. Masaryk and Vaclav Havel
Abstract：
A decade after the fall of Communism in Europe, the Czech Republic's membership in the European Union is still a matter of a relatively short waiting period of 4 years. Not so the imagination of this membership and the creation of a political concept created to promote this goal: the specific Central European policy initiated by Thomas G. Masaryk and revitalized by Vaclav Havel. Despite the deep differences in the political thought and philosophical orientations of both Presidents, not to mention the historic rupture of 41 years of Totalitarianism, their perceptions of Europe as an Imagined Community are identical.
Keywords: choice; democracy; human transcendence; identity; membership; Europe
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008759519923
Source：STUDIES IN EAST EUROPEAN THOUGHT
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