Ahmet Ersoy
Ahmet Ersoy is lecturer at the Department of History, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul.
Modernism
Representations of National Culture
Fifty-one texts illustrate the evolution of modernism in Eastern Europe. Essays, articles, poems, or excerpts from longer works offer new opportunities of possible comparisons of the respective national cultures. The volume focuses on the literary and scientific attempts at squaring the circle of individual and collective identities. Often outspokenly critical of the romantic episteme, these texts reflect a more sophisticated and critical stance than in the preceding periods. At the same time, rather than representing a complete rupture, they often continue and confirm the romantic identity narratives, albeit with "other means". The volume also presents the ways national minorities sought to legitimize their existence with reference to their cultural and institutional peculiarity.
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Editors
Maciej Górny
Maciej Górny is Research Fellow at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw and Centre for Historical Research in Berlin.
Balázs Trencsényi
Balázs Trencsényi is a Professor at the Department of Historical Studies of Central European University in Vienna and Director of IAS CEU in Budapest. His main field of interest is the history of political thought in East Central Europe. Since 2022, he has been co-directing the Invisible University for Ukraine.
Michal Kopecek
Michal Kopecek is a historian working at the Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences. He specializes in the comparative intellectual history of East Central Europe, with a focus on nationalism, human rights, constitutionalism, and post-1989 liberal, democratic, and illiberal transformations.
Vangelis Kechriotis
Vangelis Kechriotis is lecturer at the Department of History, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul.
Marius Turda
Marius Turda is Professor and Director of the Centre for Medical Humanities at Oxford Brookes University.
- Title
- Modernism
- Subtitle
- Representations of National Culture
- Editors
- Ahmet Ersoy
- Maciej Górny
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- Balázs Trencsényi
- Michal Kopecek
- Vangelis Kechriotis
- Marius Turda
- Price
- € 170,00 excl. VAT
- ISBN
- 9789637326646
- Format
- Hardback
- Number of pages
- 402
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 10 - 10 - 2010
- Dimensions
- 15.9 x 23.4 cm
- Categories
- Cultural Studies
- Political Science
- Discipline
- Academic - History and Politics
- Imprint
- CEU Press
- Also available as
- eBook PDF - € 185,00eBook PDF - € 170,00Hardback - € 185,00
Editorial Note
Chapter I. Cultural modernization: Institutionalization of “national sciences”
Chapter II. The “Critical turns”: Subverting the Romantic narratives
Chapter III. Literary representations of the “national character”
Chapter IV. Aesthetic modernism and collective identities
Chapter V. Regionalism, autonomism and the minority identity-building narratives
