Anti-modernism
The last volume of the series presents 46 texts under the heading of “anti-modernism”. Formed in a dynamic relationship with modernism, from the 1880s to the 1940s, and especially during the interwar period, the anti-modernist ideological constructions of national identification had a considerable impact on the political culture of our region.
These texts rejected the linear vision of modernization as well as the liberal democratic institutional frameworks and searched instead for alternative models of politics. The Second World War and the communist takeover in most of these countries seemingly erased these ideological subcultures, who were often engaged in war-time pro-Nazi collaboration. However, their intellectual heritage proved more resilient and influenced the formation of “national communist” narratives in the 1960-70s, while after 1989 many of these references became actualized in the context of the post-communist search for ideological predecessors.
Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe 1770–1945
Vol. I. Late Enlightenment
Vol. II. National Romanticism
Vol. III/1 Modernism
– The Creation of Nation States
Vol. III/2 Modernism
– Representations of National Culture
Vol. IV. Anti-modernism
Introduction
Balázs Trencsényi and Sorin Antohi: Approaching Anti-Modernism
Chapter I. Integral Nationalism
Nikola Pašić: The Agreement of Serbs and Croats
Georg Schönerer: The Pan-Germans’ program for the future
Roman Dmowski: Thoughts of a modern Pole
Nicolae Iorga: On national culture
Aurel C. Popovici: At the crossroads of two worlds
Vladimir Čerina: In the city of cynics
Babanzâde Ahmed Naim: The question of nationalism in Islam
Jozef Tiso: The ideology of the Slovak People’s Party
Dezső Szabó: Tomorrow’s nationalism
Chapter II. The Crisis of the European Conscience
Karl Kraus: The last days of mankind
Mircea Eliade: Spiritual itinerary
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar: On East and West
Leopold Andrian: Austria through the prism of the Idea
Mihály Babits: Mass and nation
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz: Unkempt souls
Ivan Hadzhiyski: An optimistic theory of our people
Chapter III. In Search of a National Ontology
Ion Dragoumis: Hellenic civilization
Jaroslav Durych: The mission of the Czech state
France Veber: The ideal foundations of Slavic agrarianism
Anton Wildgans: Speech about Austria
Lucian Blaga: The Mioritic space
Vladimir Dvorniković: Epic man
Nikolaj Velimirović: Serbian nation as a servant of God
Nayden Sheytanov: The Bulgarian worldview
László Németh: In the minority
Chapter IV. Conservative Redefinitions of Tradition and Modernity
Hugo von Hofmannsthal: Writing as the spiritual space of the Nation
Gyula Szekfű: Three generations
Heinrich von Srbik: Austria in the Holy Roman Empire and in the German Confederation
Živojin Perić: Religion in the Serbian Civil Code
Milan Šufflay: The depths of national consciousness
Karel Kramář: In defense of Slavic politics
Petar Mutafchiev: Towards a philosophy of the Bulgarian history
Nichifor Crainic: The meaning of tradition
Ömer Lütfi Barkan: The legal status of the peasant class in the Ottoman Empire
Ladislav Hanus: Slovak statehood
Manifesto of the Slovenian National Defense Corps
Chapter V. The Anti-Modernist Revolution
Ideological declaration of the Camp of Great Poland
Janko Janev: The spirit of the nation
Hüseyin Nihal Atsız: Turkish unity
Ioannis Metaxas: Speech on the occasion of the inauguration of public works
Emil Cioran: The transfiguration of Romania
Lazër Radi: Fascism and the Albanian Spirit
Štefan Polakovič: Slovak National Socialism
Emanuel Vajtauer: Czech myth
Svetislav Stefanović: The building of New Serbia as a peasant state
Edvard Kocbek: Comradeship
Basic secondary literature on identity discourses in Central and Southeast Europe
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