Varak Ketsemanian
However
we try to define the term and the various dimensions of the 21st
century “Armenian Reality,” one aspect remains indubitable, namely, the
ongoing political, economic, cultural and social challenges that this
reality is facing globally. The one critical feature that is not
adequately tackled and is almost non-existent in Armenian public
discourse is the “intellectual crisis” that Armenians are facing
vis-à-vis the rapid changes they are witnessing both in the Diaspora and
Armenia.
Notwithstanding the lack of a healthy public discourse that accounts
for the intellectual crisis, only a few serious works have emerged in
recent years addressing the urgent need of revamping, analyzing, and
critically engaging with the dominant epistemic categories and
historical paradigms that animate this Armenian reality. Among such
endeavors, Seta B. Dadoyan’s recent book, “2015: The Armenian Condition in Hindsight and Foresight: A Discourse” is a timely and critical piece of scholarship that sheds light on the intellectual crisis of the 21st century Armenian reality.
