Liberty and the Search for Identity

Published by Central European University Press 2006

Liberty and the Search for Identity

Edited by: Ivan Zoltan Denes

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789633863633

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Liberalism was not only the first modern ideology, it was also the first secular movement to have an international presence. The scholarly articles in this collection, skillfully edited by Iván Zoltán Dénes, examine liberal ideas and movements from Scotland to the Ottoman Empire. The volume seeks to uncover and analyze various relationships between liberalisms and nationalisms, national identities and modernity concepts, nations and empires, nation-states and nationalities, traditions and modernities, images of the self and the others, modernization strategies and identity creations. This volume provides an important historical analysis that is essential toward understanding the questions and motivations of liberalism in the European Union today. This is, therefore, a timely contribution to both historiography and contemporary politics.

Author / Editor information

Denes Ivan Zoltan :

Iván Zoltán Dénes is historian of ideas, has published seven books (including four monographs), several scholarly articles, edited and contributed in nine books, was awarded by the British Academy, the Fulbright Association, the International Exchange of Scholars, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study scholarships for studying. He is founder and president of the Istvan Bibo Center for Advanced Studies, Budapest, and an elected member of the Academia Europaea, London.

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"This volume is a monumental undertaking. For that and for his valuable introduction to the volume, the editor deserves a great deal of credit. His attention to the ambiguous relationship between liberalism and nationalism is the historically appropriate approach. Generally, during the first half of the nineteenth century, liberalism and nationalism were mutually reinforcing; but by the second half of the century--and increasingly by the twentieth century--the concept of national unity could and did come into conflict with the liberal idea of pluralism, as did nationalist exclusivity with the idea of liberal tolerance. At the same time, the relationship between liberalism and nationalism was, by its very ambiguity, replete with bewildering variations and subtle nuances; and the rich and diverse material of the essays in the book seems to prove this point"

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Foreword Michael Freeden Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Editor’s Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Liberalism and Nationalism: An Ambiguous Relationship Iván Zoltán Dénes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I.Western Europe
Scotland and England: Diverging Political Discourses David McCrone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Radical Liberalism and Nationalism in Mid-Victorian Scotland Richard J. Finlay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Dutch Liberals and Nineteenth-Century National Traditions Henk Te Velde Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Liberal Nationalism and Modern Regional Identity: Revolutionary Belgium, 1786–1830 Janet Polasky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
II. Central Europe
Unity or Liberty? German Liberalism Founding an Empire (1850–79) Gábor Erdôdy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Switzerland: a European Model of Liberal Nationalism? Albert Tanner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
The Identity Problems of the Austro-German Liberals Vilmos Heiszler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Political Vocabularies of the Hungarian Liberals and Conservatives before 1848 Iván Zoltán Dénes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
The Liberalism of the Hungarian Nobility (1825–1910) Miklós Szabó Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Marginal or Central? The Place of the Liberal Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Polish History Maciej Janowski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Czech Liberalism, 1848–1918 Otto Urban Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
III. Eastern Europe, the Balkans and Southern Europe
The Inherent Burden of Russian Liberalism Miklós Kun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
Empire and Nation in Russian Liberal Thought Alexander Semyonov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329
The Value System of Serb Liberalism Imre Ress Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345
Building the State from the Roof Down. Varieties of Romanian Liberal Nationalism Daniel Barbu and Cristian Preda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	367
The Interesting Anomaly of Balkan Liberalism Diana Mishkova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	399
In Defiance of History. Liberal and National Attributes of the Ottoman-Turkish Path to Modernity Eyüp Özveren Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	457
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	501
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	503

Language: English
Publisher: Central European University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 525
Keywords: Political studies; conservatism; modernization; values

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Published: January 2, 2006
ISBN: 9789633863633