KONTINUITA A RUPTÚROVITOSŤ V SLOVENSKOM POLITICKOM MYSLENÍ V POSLEDNEJ TRETINE 19. STOROČIA

• Authors: Marcel Martinkovič

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Continuity and ruptures in Slovak political thinking in the late 19th century

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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The goal of the paper is to present the ideological development of Slovak political thinking in the late 19th century. The framework of the study is built on the journalistic activities of the most significant political thinkers going on in the given phase of the development of Slovak national ideology. Their ideas and reflections on the goals and means of nation-forming process are presented against a background of the continuity or ruptures in the development of Slovak political thinking. The study is supported by the articles from the contemporary print media which became an important way of promoting the manifesto goals and ideas of politically engaged individuals in the Hungarian politics of those times. The comparative and historiograhic method has been used to analyse the contributors´ articles from the contemporary print media against a background of the findings of some already published research into Nationalism and the development of Slovak political thinking. The study proves the presence of a formally unifying element in the development of Slovak political thinking, which is however given various interpretations due to the changes in the historical context. This is found in reflections on the idea of the unity of the different, which was behind the legitimization of the linguistic autonomy of Slovak literature and various shades of its meaning are part of Romantic-Realist as well as liberal, civil concepts of national development. The variety of interpretations of Štúr´s concept of the unity of the different causes ruptures in the development of Slovak political thinking due to the dynamic development of the society. He completely departs from the original goal of national emancipation, i.e. to form the individual character of the Slovaks and establish their national institutions. Another parallel negative consequence of the discontinuous development of Slovak political thinking is the idea promoting the positives of ideological and political homogeneity within the national emancipation process, which led to adopting national and cultural aspects of uncritical reflection on the authority of national elite and their roles in pursuing the national goals.

Keywords

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CULTURE; NATIONAL IDENTITY; UNITY; SLOVAK POLITICAL THINKING; SLOVAKIA

• Publisher: Institute of Slovak Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 62
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 212 – 230

Contributors

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Marcel Martinkovič

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