Discourses of Collective Identity

in Central and Eastern Europe (1770 - 1945)

texts and commentaries

Vol. III/1:
Modernism - The Creation of Nation-States

Edited by: Vangelis Kechriotis (Boğazici University, Istanbul), Maciej Górny (Warsaw University), and Ahmet Ersoy (Boğazici University, Istanbul).

This is the first part of the third volume, containing 59 texts. This volume presents and illustrates the development of the ideologies of nation states, the “modern” successors of former empires. They exemplify the use modernist ideological framaeworks, from liberalism to socialism, in the context of the fundamental reconfiguration of the political system in this part of Europe between the 1860s and the 1930s. It also gives a panorama of the various solutions proposed for the national question in the region.

CONTENTS

Introduction by Maria Todorova; Chapter I. Making of the modern state in a multi-national context; Chapter II. Self-determination, democratization, and the homogenizing state; Chapter III. “National projects” and their regional framework; Chapter IV. Federalism and the decline of the empires; Chapter V. Socialism and the nationality question;

(Texts by František Palacký, Adolph Fischhof, Jan Palárik, József Eötvös, Franjo Rački, Lovro Toman, Ferenc Deák, Aleksander Świętochowski, Mehmed-beg Kapetanović Ljubušak, Aleksa Šantić, Karl Renner, Josip Vilfan, Ziya Gökalp, Draga Dejanović, Kalliroi Parren, Maria Dulębianka, Pera Todorović, Stjepan Radić, Alexandros Papanastasiou, Faik Konitza, Halide Edib, Edvard Beneš, Tomáš G. Masaryk, Heinrich Friedjung, Yusuf Akçura, Jovan Cvijić, Ismail Qemali, Ivan Cankar Frano Supilo, Eleftherios Venizelos, Anton Strashimirov, Ján Lajčiak, István Bibó, Aurel C. Popovici, Oszkár Jászi, Prince Sabahaddin, Georgios Boussios, Milan Hodža, Anton Melik, Dimitar Mihalchev, Józef Piłsudski, Michal Römer, Hristo Botev, Svetozar Marković, Bohumír Šmeral, Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea, August Cesarec, Otto Bauer, Abraham Benaroya, Attila József, Michal Chorváth, Nazım Hikmet, Josip Broz Tito)

500 pages, ISBN 978-963-7326-61-5 cloth $50.00 / €37.00 / £33.00 (published in May 2010)

Vol. III/2:

Modernism – Representations of National Culture

Edited by: Vangelis Kechriotis (Boğazici University, Istanbul), Maciej Górny (Warsaw University), and Ahmet Ersoy (Boğazici University, Istanbul)

Fifty-one texts illustrate the evolution of modernism in Eastern Europe. Essays, articles, poems, or excerpts from longer works offer new opportunities of possible comparisons of the respective national cultures. The volume focuses on the literary and scientific attempts at squaring the circle of individual and collective identities. Often outspokenly critical of the romantic episteme, these texts reflect a more sophisticated and critical stance than in the preceding periods. At the same time, rather than representing a complete rupture, they often continue and confirm the romantic identity narratives, albeit with “other means”. The volume also presents the ways national minorities sought to legitimize their existence with reference to their cultural and institutional peculiarity.

CONTENTS

Chapter I. Cultural modernization: Institutionalization of “national sciences”; Chapter II. The “Critical turns”: Subverting the Romantic narratives; Chapter III. Literary representations of the “national character”; Chapter IV. Aesthetic modernism and collective identities; Chapter V. Regionalism, autonomism and the minority identity-building narratives

(Texts by Nikolaos Politis, Ilarion Ruvarac, Dimitar Marinov, Zsolt Beöthy, Şemseddin Sami, Eugen Lovinescu, Boyan Penev, Afet İnan, Vladimir Levstik, Dimitrie Gusti, Józef Szujski, Titu Maiorescu, Michał Bobrzyński, Garabet Ibrăileanu, Giorgos Skliros, Bohdan Pavlů, Josef Pekař, Jovan Skerlić, Giorgos Theotokas, Emanuel Rádl, Branko Merxhani, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Aleko Konstantinov, Ion Luca Caragiale, Alexandros Papadiamantis, Ömer Seyfeddin, Ştefan Zeletin, Jaroslav Hašek, Robert Musil, Gjergj Fishta, Miroslav Krleža, Aleksander Kamiński, Ioannis Psicharis, Artur Górski, Endre Ady, Dimo Kyorchev, Antun Gustav Matoš, Ladislav Novomeský, Millosh Gjergj Nikolla, Tevfik Fikret, Witold Gombrowicz, George Seferis, Hovsep Vartanian, Celadet Alî Bedirxan, Krste Petkov Misirkov, Andrzej Szeptycki, Károly Kós, Romul Boilă, Josef Pfitzner)

400 pages, ISBN 978-963-7326-64-6 cloth $50.00 / €37.00 / £33.00

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