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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460128003321

Titolo

Anti-modernism : radical revisions of collective identity / / edited by Diana Mishkova, Marius Turda and Balázs Trencsényi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Budapest, Hungary ; ; New York, New York : , : Central European University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

963-386-095-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (454 p.)

Collana

Discourses of Collective Identity in Central Europe (1770-1945) : Text and Commentaries ; ; Volume 4

Disciplina

305.800943

Soggetti

Group identity - Europe, Central

Group identity - Balkan Peninsula

National characteristics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Approaching anti-modernism / Balázs Trencsenyi and Sorin Antohi -- Integral nationalism -- The crisis of the European conscience -- In search of a national ontology -- Conservative redefinitions of tradition and modernity -- The anti-modernist revolution -- Basic secondary literature on identity discourses in Central and Southeast Europe -- Glossary.

Sommario/riassunto

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.