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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809104603321

Autore

Baer Josette

Titolo

Revolution, modus vivendi or sovereignty? : the political thought of the Slovak national movement from 1861 to 1914 / / Josette Baer ; with a foreword by Dusan Kovac

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stuttgart : , : Ibidem Verlag, , 2014

ISBN

3-8382-6146-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 p.)

Disciplina

320.9437309049

Soggetti

Nationalism - Slovakia

Slovakia History Autonomy and independence movements

Czechoslovakia Politics and government

Slovakia Politics and government

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Table of contents; Foreword: Slovak political thought as discovery; Acknowledgements; X. Introduction; X. 1. The Hungarian reform period and illegal Magyarisation; X. 2. The early Slovak national movement; X. 3. Codification, revolution and the congress of the Slavs; X. 4. Neo-Absolutism, the October diploma and the memorandum; X. 5. The Ausgleich, the Matica Slovenská and the nationality law of 1868; X. 6. The political situation until WWI and the emerging of the Slovakcitizenry; X. 7. Method, definitions, contents, hypothesis; X. 7. 1. Method; X. 7. 2. Definitions

X. 7. 3 Contents, hypothesisI. Ján Francisci (1822 - 1905). Romanticism and Pragmatism; I. 1. Political goals; I. 1. 1. The three falcons and the revolution; I. 1. 2. The Pešťbudínske vedomosti and the memorandum of 1861; I. 2. Political legitimating; I. 2. 1. Pragmatism; Ján Francisci - life in brief; II. Ján Palarík (1822 - 1870). Liberalism and Constitutionalism; II. 1. Political goals; II. 1. 1. With civil rights toward a federation; II. 2. Political legitimating; II. 2. 1. Montesquieu or the spirit of The spirit of the laws; II. 2. 2. Critique of the Ausgleich

II. 2. 3. The rejection of natural lawJán Palarík - life in brief27; III. Štefan Marko Daxner (1822 - 1892). Law and education.; III. 1. Political goals; III. 1. 1. The Slovak gymnasium in Veľka Revúca; III. 2. Political



legitimating; III. 2. 1. Natural Law and Positive Law; III. 2. 2. Slovak Democratism; III. 2. 3. Distributive justice and moral death; Štefan Marko Daxner - life in brief; IV. František Víťazoslav Sasinek (1830 - 1914). History and eccentricity.; IV. 1. Political goals; IV. 1. 1. Language of communication; IV. 1. 2. The idea of power sharing; IV. 2. Political legitimating

IV. 2. 1. Anti-LiberalismIV. 2. 2. Constitutionalism or absolutism?; IV. 2. 3. Slavic solidarity; IV. 2. 4. The historical catechism for the Slovaks; František Víťazoslav Sasinek - life in brief; V. Svetozár Hurban Vajanský (1847 - 1916). Messianism,Panslavism and the superiority of art.; V. 1. Political goals; V. 1. 1. The Slovak Messianism; V. 2. Political legitimating; V. 2. 1. Insights and outlooks; V. 2. 2. The rejection of modernity; Svetozár Hurban Vajanský - life in brief; Conclusion; 1. The autonomy of the okolie; 2. Sovereignty; 3. Method and philosophical influence; 4. Hypothesis

BibliographyIndex

Sommario/riassunto

This study, the first of its kind in English, presents an overview of Slovak intellectual history in the 19th century, including the debates surrounding the memorandum of 1861, the political stagnation of the 1880s, characterized by an increasingly Russophile orientation, and, finally, Czechoslovakism as the way to common independence with the Czechs.The selected portraits of six intellectuals and politicians should be seen as a prism through which Slovak intellectual history appears in its various facets. The 'narodovci' (the pioneers of national awakening) tried to strengthen th