ABSTRACT
This chapter explores notions of 'enterprise' in post-socialist Slovakia through one of its key emergent features: notions of the authorial self. Slovak language and literature instructors complain that even students preparing for college do not master the basics of stylistic genres. The problem of 'finding a topic' was in the air, coming up in college debate programs that the Soros Foundation sponsored throughout the region, and as a component of cultivating critical thinking at a 2004 national conference on primary education sponsored by a team of educators from the University of Northern Iowa, and by the Soros Foundation. John Locke's arguments have of course become part of a canon of liberal political and economic theory. The standing of the authorial self is achieved, ironically, through a surface back grounding of a writer's distinctive personal features which puzzles some interlocutors.
