Discourses of Collective Identity
in Central and Southeast Europe 1770–1945 Vol.
III/1
Modernism
The Creation of Nation-States
The editors:
Ahmet Ersoy, Boğaziçi University,
Istanbul
Maciej Górny, Polish Academy
of Sciences, Warsaw
Vangelis Kechriotis, Boğaziçi
University, Istanbul
This is the first part of the third volume of the
four-volume
series, a daring project of CEU Press, presenting
the most important texts that triggered and shaped the
processes of nation-building in the many countries of
Central and Southeast Europe. The aim is to confront
‘mainstream’ and seemingly successful national
discourses with each other, thus creating a space for
analyzing those narratives of identity which became
institutionalized as “national canons.”
This is the first part of the third volume, containing 59 texts. This volume presents and illustrates the development of the ideologies of nation states, the “modern” successors of former empires. They exemplify the use modernist ideological framaeworks, from liberalism to socialism, in the context of the fundamental reconfiguration of the political system in this part of Europe between the 1860s and the 1930s. It also gives a panorama of the various solutions proposed for the national question in the region.
Why, modernism and not modernity? Modernity implies
the West, while modernism was the product of the periphery.
The editors use it in a stricter sense, giving it a
place between romanticism and anti-modernism, spanning
from the 1860s until the decade following World War
I.
Contents
Introduction by Maria Todorova; Chapter
I. Making of the modern state in a multi-national context;
Chapter II. Self-determination, democratization, and
the homogenizing state; Chapter III. “National
projects” and their regional framework; Chapter
IV. Federalism and the decline of the empires; Chapter
V. Socialism and the nationality question;
(Texts by František Palacký, Adolph Fischhof, Jan Palárik, József Eötvös, Franjo Rački, Lovro Toman, Ferenc Deák, Aleksander Świętochowski, Mehmed-beg Kapetanović Ljubušak, Aleksa Šantić, Karl Renner, Josip Vilfan, Ziya Gökalp, Draga Dejanović, Kalliroi Parren, Maria Dulębianka, Pera Todorović, Stjepan Radić, Alexandros Papanastasiou, Faik Konitza, Halide Edib, Edvard Beneš, Tomáš G. Masaryk, Heinrich Friedjung, Yusuf Akçura, Jovan Cvijić, Ismail Qemali, Ivan Cankar Frano Supilo, Eleftherios Venizelos, Anton Strashimirov, Ján Lajčiak, István Bibó, Aurel C. Popovici, Oszkár Jászi, Prince Sabahaddin, Georgios Boussios, Milan Hodža, Anton Melik, Dimitar Mihalchev, Józef Piłsudski, Michal Römer, Hristo Botev, Svetozar Marković, Bohumír Šmeral, Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea, August Cesarec, Otto Bauer, Abraham Benaroya, Attila József, Michal Chorváth, Nazım Hikmet, Josip Broz Tito)
2010
500 pages
ISBN 978-963-7326-61-5 cloth $50.00 / €37.00 /
£33.00
Discourses
of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast
Europe 1770–1945
Vol.
I. Late Enlightenment – Emergence of the Modern
'National Idea'
Vol.II. National
Romanticism – The Formation of National Movements
Vol.
III/2 Modernism – Representations of National
Culture
"The collection does an admirable job of addressing
multiple audiences. One could imagine these texts being
used to great effect in an undergraduate course and,
although the contexts would likely be too dense for
students at this level, they would make the volume well
suited to a graduate course. The series could just as
easily be used by scholars well-versed in the intellectual
history of one or more of the areas represented who
are looking to broaden the context of their understanding."
- Slavic and East European Journal
"Discourses of Collective Identity bietet
eine eindrucksvolle Lektüre und sei auch solchen
Lesern empfohlen, die sich jenseits der ostmittel-,
südosteuropäischen Area Studies für
Nationalismusforschung interessieren. Für jene
Regionalstudien bedeutet er einen gewichtigen Versuch,
das Feld für eine kritische Ideengeschichte zurückzugewinnen,
nachdem besonders für Südosteuropa ethnologisch-anthropologische,
kultur- und sozialgeschichtliche Fragestellungen in
letzter Zeit eine dominierende Stellung einnehmen."
- H-Soz-u-Kult
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