Paul Ricœur's The Self as an Other was relevant for my PhD examination, about 3 weeks ago. When I read it again, I felt a spontaneous antipathy for his construction of certain binding meta-speech acts, constituing the continuity of the Self. "A lot has changed, but I will keep my word."

The Montenegro-myth is kept alive, as I realized when browsing through Globe & Mail's Balkans series. Interestingly, the legends of Montenegro's tradition in indepence and "freedom" which is listed at the end of the article Will Montenegro be Europe's newest state? by Doug Saunders, chief of the Globe and Mail's London-based European Bureau, under the title Split Decision are thwarted by a statement by Nebojša Medojević (Group for Change):

Vom 2. bis 16. September 2006 findet im Schloss Seggau neben Graz die Internationale Sommeruniversität der Universität Graz unter dem Thema Staat – Gesellschaft – Religionen: Ebenen Europäischer Identität. Die Anmeldungsfrist ist der 15. Mai 2006. Mehr Informationen unter http://international.uni-graz.at/seggausummerschool.