The Politics of National Character : A Study in Interwar East European Thought

ISBN-13: 9780415600989 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 240 str.

Balazs Trencsenyi

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Balázs Trencsényi is Assistant Professor of History at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary