Acknowledgments General Introduction: Inter-texts of identity Introduction: Kontler: The Enlightenment in Central Europe? Kitromilides: The Enlightenment in Southeast Europe Chapter I. The Transformation of Symbolic Geography (9 texts) Chapter II. Cultural and Historiographical Narratives of Identity (11 texts) Chapter III. Creating an Enlightened National Public (10 texts) Chapter IV. Reform and Revolution: Formatting the Enlightened Polity (14 texts)
Balazs Trencsenyi is Assistant Professor of History at the Central European University, Budapest. Michal Kopecek, Ph.D. is Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History, Prague.
"This intelligently chosen and extremely useful anthology provides
insight into the way narratives of national identity were shaped in
the region noted in the book's title. Items include such richly
varied materials as anthems, songs, constitutions, manifestos,
novels, correspondence, autobiographical materials, and
contemporary historical narratives. Each item is accompanied by
information on the author and context as well as bibliographical
material. Summing up: Highly recommended. All levels and
libraries."
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"The editors hope to overcome two tendencies. The first tendency is
to treat the 'process of creating national identity in Central and
Southeast Europe' as something exceptional. The editors very much
reject the idea of studying these cultures only in terms of
themselves. However, they also reject any notion of explaining
these cultures by comparing them to an ideal Western type: 'we
sought to abandon the 'Platonic' image dividing the continent in
two ontologically incompatible worlds: the transcendent world of
the Real - the Occident, and its ontologically inferior imitation -
the Orient, the 'Remainder of Europe'. The editors of this series
very much succeed in their attempt to get readers to look across
national boundaries when studying the region. The multitude of
languages required by any scholar to pursue cross-cultural
comparisons in the region is no doubt a discouragement to many. By
taking the time to provide the documents in English translation in
one central collection, the editors have done much to facilitate
the breaking down of traditional boundaries."
"Discourses of Collective Identity bietet eine eindrucksvolle
Lektüre und sei auch solchen Lesern empfohlen, die sich jenseits
der ostmittel-, südosteuropäischen Area Studies für
Nationalismusforschung interessieren. Für jene Regionalstudien
bedeutet er einen gewichtigen Versuch, das Feld für eine kritische
Ideengeschichte zurückzugewinnen, nachdem besonders für
Südosteuropa ethnologisch-anthropologische, kultur- und
sozialgeschichtliche Fragestellungen in letzter Zeit eine
dominierende Stellung einnehmen."
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