Language and Revolution: Making Modern Political Identities

ISBN-13: 9780714653044 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 414 str.

Igal Halfin

Opis

This work examines the role of language in forging the modern subject. While social historians tend to regard language as a pragmatic tool, as much as an instrument of power, intellectual historians often treat language as a supra-human force that somehow grips men and turns them into brainwashed automatons. Taking issue with both these approaches, the contributors to this volume treat language as a force that imbues the historical protagonist with the horizon of his/her meanings, on the one hand, and that is used to acquire a new sense of identity, on the other. In the momentous reconfiguration of political and social identities brought about by the advent of modernity, individuals were relocated within new seats of discursive relations.

Spis treści

Introduction, Igal Halfin; liberty and unanimity - the paradoxes of subjectivity and citizenship in the French revolution, David Andress; the desacralization of the monarchy - rumours and political pornography during World War I, Boris Kolonitskii; making Cossacks counter-revolutionary - the Don Host and the 1918 anti-Soviet insurgency, Peter Holquist; modernity and the poetics of proletarian discontent, Mark D. Steinberg; working, struggling, becoming - Stalin-era autobiographical texts, Jochen Hellbeck; on being the subjects of history - Nazis as 20th-century revolutionaries, Peter Fritzsche; intimacy in an ideological key - the communist case of the 1920s and 1930s, Igal Halfin; Grigorii Aleksandrov's volga-volga, Katerina Clark.

O autorze

Igal Halfin