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The author begins this book with a comparative approach to reveal affinities between Michael Oakeshott's philosophy regarding the paradox of knowledge, & ancient & classical philosophers. Oakeshott's nonexegetical view of philosophy has a Protean evasiveness that reflects a Platonic style of argumentation in the relationship between writing form & content. But, the rejection of a Platonic division between philosophic & practical knowledge locates the beginnings of philosophy within concepts of everyday knowledge that have become "recognizables" through repetition & familiarity rather than actual truth. Plato's use of myths (the immortal soul, the cave) is refuted as reductionist devices used to achieve certain truths. In actuality, the prisoners in the Platonic cave have more information than the myth reveals. Thus, philosophy does not produce concrete knowledge that rules as a philosopher king, but rather provides clarification of actual experience. 28 References. J. Harwell

"Many years following the end of the several wars in southeastern Europe, the area of the world formerly known as Yugoslavia remains a potentially unstable region of Europe. The selective memory characteristic of the nationalist rhetoric primarily serves domestic policy purposes; it can be located somewhere between a tragedy and a myth in the stories of the people. In this article the author shows, using Kosovo and the Greek Part of Cyprus as empirical examples, how life stories are linked to ethnically fixed memory spaces. The paper explores the idea of borders as narratives and as metaphors in terms of 'Balkan' and 'Cypriote' identities in the context of contemporary European culture." (author's abstract)