Liberty and the Search for Identity
Published on 2. January 2006
Book
Hardback
526 pages
978-963-7326-44-8 (ISBN)
Description
Liberalism was not only the first modern ideology, it was also the first secular movement to have an international presence. The scholarly articles in this collection, skillfully edited by Ivan Zoltan Denes, examine liberal ideas and movements from Scotland to the Ottoman Empire. The volume seeks to uncover and analyze various relationships between liberalisms and nationalisms, national identities and modernity concepts, nations and empires, nation-states and nationalities, traditions and modernities, images of the self and the others, modernization strategies and identity creations. This volume provides an important historical analysis that is essential toward understanding the questions and motivations of liberalism in the European Union today. This is, therefore, a timely contribution to both historiography and contemporary politics.
Reviews / Votes
"This volume is a monumental undertaking. For that and for his valuable introduction to the volume, the editor deserves a great deal of credit. His attention to the ambiguous relationship between liberalism and nationalism is the historically appropriate approach. Generally, during the first half of the nineteenth century, liberalism and nationalism were mutually reinforcing; but by the second half of the century--and increasingly by the twentieth century--the concept of national unity could and did come into conflict with the liberal idea of pluralism, as did nationalist exclusivity with the idea of liberal tolerance. At the same time, the relationship between liberalism and nationalism was, by its very ambiguity, replete with bewildering variations and subtle nuances; and the rich and diverse material of the essays in the book seems to prove this point" * Austrian History Yearbook *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
Hungary
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Academic
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
996 gr
ISBN-13
978-963-7326-44-8 (9789637326448)
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Person
Ivan Zoltan Denes is historian of ideas, has published seven books (including four monographs), several scholarly articles, edited and contributed in nine books, was awarded by the British Academy, the Fulbright Association, the International Exchange of Scholars, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study scholarships for studying. He is founder and president of the Istvan Bibo Center for Advanced Studies, Budapest, and an elected member of the Academia Europaea, London.
Content
The Editor's Preface Ivan Z. Denes: The Ambiguous Relationship of Liberalism and Nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe I. Western Europe 1. David McCrone: Scotland and England: Diverging Political Discourses 2. Richard Finlay: Radical Liberalism and Nationalism in Mid-Victorian Scotland 3. Henk te Velde: Dutch Liberals and Nineteenth-Century National Traditions 4. Janet Polasky: Liberal Nationalism and the Brabant Revolutions II. Central Europe 1. Gabor Erdody: Unity or Liberty? German Liberalism Founding an Empire, 1850-79 2. Albert Tanner: Switzerland: A European Model of Liberal Nationalism? 3. Vilmos Heiszler: The Identity Problems of the Austro-German Liberals 4. Ivan Zoltan Denes: Political Vocabulary of the Hungarian Liberals and Conservatives, 1790-1848 5. Miklos Szabo: The Liberalism of the Hungarian Nobility (1825-1910). 6. Maciej Janowski: Marginal or Central? The Place of the Liberal Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Polish History 7. Otto Urban: Czech Liberalism, 1848-1918 III. Eastern Europe, the Balkans and Southern Europe 1. Miklos Kun: The Inherent Burden of Russian Liberalism. 2. Alexander Semyonov: Empire and Nation in the History of Russian Liberalism 3. Imre Ress: The Value System of Serb Liberalism 4. Daniel Barbu - Cristian Preda: Building the State from the Roof Down. Varieties of Romanian Liberal Nationalism 5. Diana Mishkova: The Interesting Anomaly of Balkan Liberalism 6. Eyuep OEzveren: In Defiance of History: Liberal and National Attributes of the Ottoman-Turkish Road to Modernity Index