Politics of National Character - A Study in Interwar East European Thought

Informationen zum Autor Balázs Trencsényi is Assistant Professor of History at Central European University! Budapest! Hungary Klappentext A comparative analysis of the ideological constructions of national specificity in Romania! Bulgaria & Hungary! this text studies the growing infatuation with 'national essence'! seeking to understand the radicalization of nationalism in East Central Europe in connection with the shift of the notions of historicity & temporality. Zusammenfassung This volume analyzes conceptions of national specificity and national past in Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction The European Context: The Rise and Fall of National Characterology 1. National Specificity and the Challenge of Ahistoricity in the Romanian Intellectual Tradition 2. Historicism and Populism: Dilemmas of the Hungarian Character-Discourse 3. Symbolic Geographies and Normative Pasts: The Search for the True Bulgarian Self 4. Conclusion

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• Authors: Balazs Trencsenyi, Balázs Trencsényi
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.08.2011
• EAN: 9780415600989
• ISBN: 978-0-415-60098-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Routledge Studies in Comparative Political Thought
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science; Eastern Europe, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Nationalism, Social & cultural history, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Historiography, Fascism & Nazism, Regional Studies, Social and cultural history, Regional / International studies, Far-right political ideologies and movements, Political science and theory