Ukrainian challenge. Discovery of a European country

The Ukrainian Challenge is first and foremost a gesture of deep solidarity between Karl Schlögel, a leading European intellectual, and the new Ukraine after the Maidan. This is the best study on Ukraine written in Western Europe in recent years. The book consists of a series of essays, each of which tells about the author's meeting with one of the Ukrainian cities: Kyiv, Odessa, Yalta, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Donetsk, Chernivtsi, Lviv. Each essay is a kind of walk, during which the author reveals different layers of city life: history, landscape, toponymy, names and more. Essays written in different years and even decades trace the unity of meaning that Schlögel calls the desire to "understand the unheard-of riches of this" Europe in miniature. " The book was born out of a desire to return Ukraine to the mental map of Europe. It focuses on the European region, which today suffers from military and ideological aggression, and that is why it needs attention and solidarity more than ever.

The book "Ukrainian Challenge" is, first of all, a gesture of deep solidarity of Karl Schlegel, a leading European intellectual, with the new Ukraine after the Maidan. This is the best study on Ukraine written in Western Europe in recent years. The book consists of a series of essays, each of which tells about the author's meeting with one of the Ukrainian cities: Kiev, Odessa, Yalta, Kharkov, Dnieper, Donetsk, Chernivtsi, Lviv. Each essay is a kind of walk, during which the author reveals different layers of city life: history, landscape, toponymy, names and so on. Essays written in different years and even decades trace the semantic unity that Schlegel calls the desire to "understand the unprecedented wealth of this" Europe in miniature. " The book was born out of a desire to return Ukraine to the mental map of Europe. It focuses on the European region, which today suffers from military and ideological aggression, and that is why it needs attention and solidarity more than ever.