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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