1st Edition
The Politics of National Character A Study in Interwar East European Thought
By Balázs Trencsényi
Copyright 2012
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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The book is a comparative analysis of the ideological constructions of national specificity in Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary. Studying the growing infatuation with "national essence" it seeks to understand the radicalization of nationalism in East Central Europe in connection with the shift of the notions of historicity and temporality.
Trencsényi provides a contextual analysis of the symbolic... Read more
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
Biography
Balázs Trencsényi is Assistant Professor of History at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
