NATION, NATIONALITIES, STATE: ON THE POLITICS OF ETHNIC ENTHUSIASM

• Authors: Tibor Pichler
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The study presents an analytical description of key factors and an analysis of basic concepts in the transformation of a society of estates into a society of citizens in the Kingdom of Hungary against the background of contradictory nationalizing processes: ethnic and political. In relation to the actors, that is the types of elites involved in this process, differing in available resources, social and political capital, it was a matter of a clash of nationalisms generated from above – from the level of the government, and from below from the level outside the political institutions. It was a clash between official political and nationality nationalisms. Nationality or ethnic nationalism, its way of thinking, construction and instrumentalisation of collective identity using historical argumentation is placed in the centre of attention.

Keywords

EN

HISTORY; NATION; NATIONALITY; NATIONALISM; IDENTITY; EQUALITY

• Publisher: Institute of Historical Studies of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Historický časopis (Historical Journal)
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 56
• Issue: suppl. issue
• Pages: 17 – 39

Contributors

author

Tibor Pichler

• Filozofický ústav SAV, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic