Národ jako jediné hodnotící kritérium? České země v Předlitavsku a (stále) etnicistní česká historiografie

• Authors: Pavel Kladiwa

Title variants

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The Nation as the only evaluation criterion? The Bohemian Lands in Cisleithania and the (persisting) ethnicist approach in Czech historiography

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This study presents an argument developing from the thesis that Czech syntheses of the long 19th century suffer from excessive ethnocentrism, i.e. the belief in one’s nation as the focal point of everything, somewhat automatically, so that an interpretation of the so-called national movement and nationalist conflicts in the Bohemian Lands rather descends into clichés and dogmas. This study points out the pitfalls in using the terms “nation” or “national identity” in analytical concept formation. It also notes that foreign historiography appears to appreciate more the contribution of the Cisleithanian system for the development of the Bohemian Lands than Czech historiography itself.

Keywords

EN

19th century; Cisleithania; the Czech Lands; philosophy of history; the national question; nationalism

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Český časopis historický (The Czech Historical Review)
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 113
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 989-1008

Contributors

author

Pavel Kladiwa

• Ostravská univerzita v Ostravě, Filozofická fakulta, Katedra historie Reální 5, 701 03 Ostrava, Czech Republic