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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819603903321

Autore

Trencsnyi Balzs <1973->

Titolo

The politics of "national character" : a study in interwar East European thought / / Balzs Trencsnyi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2012

ISBN

1-283-46259-1

9786613462596

0-203-80670-0

1-136-65723-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in comparative political thought

Disciplina

947.0009/042

Soggetti

National characteristics, East European

Nationalism - Europe, Eastern - Historiography

Nationalism - Europe, Eastern - History

Europe, Eastern Historiography

Europe, Eastern History 1918-1945

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

The Politics of ""National Character"" A study in interwar East European thought; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 National specificity and the challenge of ahistoricity in the Romanian intellectual tradition; 3 Historicism and populism: dilemmas of the Hungarian character-discourse; 4 Symbolic geographies and normative pasts: the search for the true Bulgarian self; 5 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 resources and available ideological references that were used for creating these discourses in the respective countries. While focusing on the interwar period when these conceptions became ce