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Book Anti modernism

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  • Author : Diana Mishkova
  • Publisher : Central European University Press
  • Release : 2014-09-01
  • ISBN : 9633860954
  • Pages : 452 pages

Download or read book Anti modernism written by Diana Mishkova and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Second Coming

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : Astrala Publishing
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1466125705
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book The Second Coming written by and published by Astrala Publishing. This book was released on with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Public Libraries

Download or read book Public Libraries written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Slovakia in History

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  • Author : Mikuláš Teich
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2011-02-03
  • ISBN : 1139494945
  • Pages : 435 pages

Download or read book Slovakia in History written by Mikuláš Teich and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, Slovakia's identity seemed inextricably linked with that of the former state. This book explores the key moments and themes in the history of Slovakia from the Duchy of Nitra's ninth-century origins to the establishment of independent Slovakia at midnight 1992–3. Leading scholars chart the gradual ethnic awakening of the Slovaks during the Reformation and Counter-Reformation and examine how Slovak national identity took shape with the codification of standard literary Slovak in 1843 and the subsequent development of the Slovak national movement. They show how, after a thousand years of Magyar-Slovak coexistence, Slovakia became part of the new Czechoslovak state from 1918–39, and shed new light on its role as a Nazi client state as well as on the postwar developments leading up to full statehood in the aftermath of the collapse of communism in 1989. There is no comparable book in English on the subject.

Book Russia  Slavdom and the Western World

Download or read book Russia Slavdom and the Western World written by Janko Lavrin and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mediating Spaces

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  • Author : James M. Robertson
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2024-07-17
  • ISBN : 022802188X
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book Mediating Spaces written by James M. Robertson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2024-07-17 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the twentieth century in the lands of Yugoslavia, socialists embarked on multiple projects of supranational unification. Sensitive to the vulnerability of small nations in a world of great powers, they pursued political sovereignty, economic development, and cultural modernization at a scale between the national and the global – from regional strategies of Balkan federalism to continental visions of European integration to the internationalist ambitions of the Non-Aligned Movement. In Mediating Spaces James Robertson offers an intellectual history of the diverse supranational politics of Yugoslav socialism, beginning with its birth in the 1870s and concluding with its violent collapse in the 1990s. Showcasing the ways in which socialists in Southeast Europe confronted the political, economic, and cultural dimensions of globalization, the book frames the evolution of supranational politics as a response to the shifting dynamics of global economic and geopolitical competition. Arguing that literature was a crucial vehicle for imagining new communities beyond the nation, Robertson analyzes the manuscripts, journals, and personal correspondence of the literary left to excavate the cultural geographies that animated Yugoslav socialism and its supranational horizons. The book ultimately illuminates the innovative strategies of cultural development used by socialist writers to challenge global asymmetries of power and prestige. Mediating Spaces reveals the full significance of supranationalism in the history of socialist thought, recovering a key concern for an era of renewed geopolitical contestation in Eastern Europe.

Book Revolu  n   v  zva

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1916
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 394 pages

Download or read book Revolu n v zva written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The German Road to the East

Download or read book The German Road to the East written by Evans Lewin and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lexical Layers of Identity

Download or read book Lexical Layers of Identity written by Danko Šipka and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a systematic approach to lexical indicators of cultural identity using the material of Slavic languages.

Book Soviet and Post Soviet Identities

Download or read book Soviet and Post Soviet Identities written by Mark Bassin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh look at post-Soviet Russia and Eurasia and at the Soviet historical background that shaped the present.

Book Memories of Empire and Entry into International Society

Download or read book Memories of Empire and Entry into International Society written by Filip Ejdus and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-06-14 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the role of memories for the expansion of international society? By drawing on the English School approach to International Relations this edited volume argues that the memories of empire and suzerainty are key to understanding sociological aspects of the expansion of anarchical society. The expert contributors adopt a socio-historic conceptualization of entry into international society, aiming to move beyond the legalist analysis, and also explore the impact of identity-constructions and collective memories on the expansion of international society. Empirically, the volume investigates the entry into international society of Belarus, Bulgaria, Greece, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia and Romania and studies memories that they activated along the way. While these memoires of bygone polities were used by state builders to make sense of international society and legitimise claims of the new entrants, they inadvertently also generated tensions and anxieties, which in many ways persist until this day. Both the theoretical angle and the empirical material presented in this volume are novel additions to the growing body of knowledge in historical International Relations. Exploring how memories and experiences of the past still complicate the entrants’ positions in international society and to what degree ensuing tensions remain today, this volume will be of interest to students and scholars of European International Relations, particularly those with a focus on Eastern Europe.

Book 2016

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  • Author : Günter Berghaus
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2016-05-24
  • ISBN : 3110465957
  • Pages : 588 pages

Download or read book 2016 written by Günter Berghaus and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 6 (2016) is an open issue with an emphasis on Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Estonia, Iceland). Four essays focus on Russia, two on music; other contributions are concerned with Egypt, USA and Korea. Furthermore there are sections on Futurist archives, Futurism in caricatures and Futurism in fiction.

Book A Different Mickiewicz

Download or read book A Different Mickiewicz written by Michal Kuziak and published by LIT Verlag. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mickiewicz who emerges from the texts included herein is an artist whose work centers on the experience of modernity—an attempt to diagnose it and to formulate his own response. At the same time, that response takes divergent forms in the poet's work: from acceptance through rejection to paraphrase and reworking; of no less importance is the concealed presence of modernity in his work. The Mickiewicz of A Different Mickiewicz is above all a writer of contradictions, aporias, and an experience that is impossible and simultaneously necessary; it is defined by many orders of meanings that differentiate his texts' formulations of the problems they address. This phenomenon manifests itself in the poet's writings in connection with the formula of writing, the category of subjectivity (including the author's subjectivity), the vision of history, the experience of reality, the construction of ideological and cultural projects, problems of cognition and religion. Micha? Kuziak. Full Professor. Institute of Polish Literature of the University of Warsaw (Department of Comparative Studies). Author of books and articles on romantic and contemporary literature and the theory of literature and comparative literary studies.

Book Slavdom

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  • Author : Ľudovít Štúr
  • Publisher : Glagoslav Publications
  • Release : 2021-06-07
  • ISBN : 1914337034
  • Pages : 530 pages

Download or read book Slavdom written by Ľudovít Štúr and published by Glagoslav Publications. This book was released on 2021-06-07 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Why do you whimper and wail, O Tatra streams and rivers, who carry your plaintive lament resounding to the sea?’ asks the narrator toward the end of The Slovaks, in Ancient Days, and Now. They respond: ‘Because our human compatriots do not join together in memory, as we our waters mix with our origin, and because their lives do not resound booming, but roll on unconsciously, like hidden streams, silently to the sea of the life of the nations, young man!’ This quotation from the most famous prose work of Ľudovít Štúr (1815 – 1856) might be set as a motto to the literary career of Slovakia’s greatest Romantic poet, publicist, and political activist. For all of Štúr’s writings aim at one goal: the propagation of the national traditions of the Slovaks in an age when their nation was threatened with such repression from the Magyar majority in Hungary, that the complete extinction of the Slovak language and culture was a real possibility. Slavdom: A Selection of his Writings in Prose and Verse presents the reader with a wide selection of the creative output of a great Slovak writer, and an important Pan-Slav thinker. Divided in three parts: ‘Slovakia,’ ‘Pan-Slavism’ and ‘Russia,’ it reflects the development of Štúr’s thought, from his insistence on the importance of the Slovak past and the quality of Slovak culture, through his attempts to find a modus vivendi within the Austro-Hungarian Empire by uniting all of the Slavic nations of Austria together in a federation under the Habsburg crown (Austro-Slavism) to his arguments for all Slavs to unite under the hegemony of Russia, when the events following the Spring of the Peoples in 1848 proved Austro-Slavism a dead alley. Slavdom offers a generous selection of Štúr’s writings, from Slavic apologetics such as The Contribution of the Slavs to European Civilisation though selections of his poetry, chiefly, the two great chansons de geste centring on the ancient Great Moravian Empire: Svatoboj and Matúš of Trenčín. A must read for anyone interested in Slovak literature, Pan-Slavism, and European Romanticism in general. This book was published with a financial support from SLOLIA, Centre for Information on Literature in Bratislava.

Book Who are the Slavs

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  • Author : Paul Rankov Radosavljevich
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1919
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 646 pages

Download or read book Who are the Slavs written by Paul Rankov Radosavljevich and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Linguistics Vol III

Download or read book History of Linguistics Vol III written by Giulio C. Lepschy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TheHistory of Linguistics, to be published in five volumes, aims to provide the reader with an authoritative and comprehensive account of the attitudes to language prevailing in different civilizations and in different periods by examining the very varied development of linguistic thought in the specific social, cultural and religious contexts involved. Issues discussed include the place of language in education, variation and prestige, and approaches to lexical and grammatical description. The authors of the individual chapters are specialists who have analysed the primary sources and produced original syntheses by exploring the linguistic interests and assumptions of particular cultures in their own terms, without seeking to reinterpret them as contributions towards the development of contemporary western conceptions of linguistic science. The third volume of the History of Linguistics covers the Renaissance and the Early Modern Period. The chapter on the Renaissance (15th and 16th centuries), examines the study of Latin in both the new Humanist and rationalist traditions, along with the foundations of vernacular grammar in the study of Romance, Germanic and Slavic. The chapter on the Early Modern Period (17th and 18th centuries) presents the study of language in its philosophical context (Bacon, Port-Royal, Hobbes, Locke, Leibniz, the Enlightenment), as well as the accumulation of data which led to the foundation of Comparative Philology in the 19th century.

Book Selected writings

    Book Details:
  • Author : Roman Jakobson
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
  • Release : 1985
  • ISBN : 9783110106053
  • Pages : 438 pages

Download or read book Selected writings written by Roman Jakobson and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1985 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: