Contents

Foreword by Alfred Erich Senn ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction 1
Notes 12
Chapter One Between Identity and Freedom: Mapping
Nationalism in Twentieth-Century Lithuania 13
Notes 35

Chapter Two Vytautas Kavolis: Liberalism, Nationalism, and
the Polylogue of Civilisations 39
Notes 71
Chapter Three Aleksandras Shtromas: Liberal Nationalism and
the Politics of Dissent 73
Notes 118

Chapter Four Tomas Venclova: Ethical Universalism and
the Discovery of the Other 121
Notes 161

Bibliography 163
Index 173