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 volume presents and illustrates the development
of the ideologies of nation states, the “modern”
successors of former empires. The sixty texts from a
dozen east-European countries include manifestos, articles,
poems or extracts from lengthy studies, written between
mid-19th and early 20th centuries. They exemplify the
relation between modernism and the creation of nation
states. Each text is accompanied by a presentation of
its author, and by an analysis of the context in which
the respective text was born.
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;
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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