![]() ![]() From the vantage of intellectual and political discourse, the usually nebulous idea of Central Europe was a reply to the disappearance of empires in this region after 1918, and to the rise of totalitarianism in 1938-48. This essay, in an interdisciplinary manner, traces the origins and the functioning of Central Europe as a concept through the lens of cartography, history and culture. But when people subscribe to and act in accordance with a concept of this kind, it becomes reality, that is, part of social reality. ![]() Central Europe is as much invented as the continent of Europe, and as any human concept for that matter. ![]()
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