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- Anti-modernism: Radical Revisions of Collective Identity
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Central European University Press
- Series: Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe (1770–1945)
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The last volume of the Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe 1770–1945 series presents 46 texts under the heading of "antimodernism". In a dynamic relationship with modernism, from the 1880s to the 1940s, and especially during the interwar period, the antimodernist political discourse in the region offered complex ideological constructions of national identification.
These texts rejected the linear vision of progress and instead offered alternative models of temporality, such as the cyclical one as well as various narratives of decline. This shift was closely connected to the rejection of liberal democratic institutionalism, and the preference for organicist models of social existence, emphasizing the role of the elites (and charismatic leaders) shaping the whole body politic. Along these lines, antimodernist authors also formulated alternative visions of symbolic geography: rejecting the symbolic hierarchies that focused on the normativity of Western European models, they stressed the cultural and political autarchy of their own national community, which in some cases was also coupled with the reevaluation of the Orient. At the same time, this antimodernist turn should not be confused with rightwing radicalism—in fact, the dialogue with the modernist tradition was often very subtle and the anthology also contains texts which offered a criticism of 'modern' totalitarianism in an antimodernist key.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgements
- pp. ix-x
- Chapter I. Integral Nationalism
- Nicolae Iorga: On National Culture
- pp. 70-76
- Dezső Szabó: Tomorrow’s Nationalism
- pp. 108-114
- Chapter II. The Crisis of the European Conscience
- Karl Kraus: The Last Days of Mankind
- pp. 117-126
- Mircea Eliade: Spiritual Itinerary
- pp. 127-133
- Ahmet Hamdi̇ Tanpinar: On East and West
- pp. 134-141
- Mihály Babits: Mass and Nation
- pp. 148-155
- Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz: Unkempt Souls
- pp. 156-164
- Chapter III. In Search of a National Ontology
- Ion Dragoumis: Hellenic Civilization
- pp. 175-181
- Anton Wildgans: Speech About Austria
- pp. 199-204
- Lucian Blaga: The Mioritic Space
- pp. 205-211
- Vladimir Dvorniković: Epic Man
- pp. 212-218
- Nayden Sheytanov: Bulgarian Worldview
- pp. 226-232
- László Németh: In Minority
- pp. 233-242
- Chapter IV. Conservative Redefinitions of Tradition and Modernity
- Gyula Szekfű: Three Generations
- pp. 251-258
- Karel Kramář: In Defense of Slavic Politics
- pp. 282-291
- Nichifor Crainic: The Meaning of Tradition
- pp. 299-305
- Ladislav Hanus: Slovak Statehood
- pp. 313-322
- Chapter V. The Anti-modernist Revolution
- Janko Janev: The Spirit of the Nation
- pp. 335-341
- Hüseyin Ni̇hal Atsiz: Turkish Unity
- pp. 342-347
- Emil Cioran: The Transfiguration of Romania
- pp. 356-362
- Lazër Radi: Fascism and the Albanian Spirit
- pp. 363-369
- Štefan Polakovič: Slovak National Socialism
- pp. 370-378
- Emanuel Vajtauer: Czech Myth
- pp. 379-387
- Edvard Kocbek: Comradeship
- pp. 396-404
Additional Information
ISBN
9789633860953
Related ISBN(s)
9789637326622
MARC Record
OCLC
904519207
Pages
452
Launched on MUSE
2015-03-07
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2014