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Revolution, modus vivendi or sovereignty? : the political thought of the Slovak national movement from 1861 to 1914
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This study, the first of its kind in English, presents an overview of Slovak intellectual history in the 19th century, including the debates surrounding the memorandum of 1861, the political stagna...
This study, the first of its kind in English, presents an overview of Slovak intellectual history in the 19th century, including the debates surrounding the memorandum of 1861, the political stagnation of the 1880s, characterized by an increasingly Russophile orientation, and, finally, Czechoslovakism as the way to common independence with the Czechs.The selected portraits of six intellectuals and politicians should be seen as a prism through which Slovak intellectual history appears in its various facets. The 'narodovci' (the pioneers of national awakening) tried to strengthen th
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- Creator
- Josette Baer ; with a foreword by Dusan Kovac
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- English
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- 1st ed
- Stuttgart : Ibidem Verlag, 2014
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- 1 online resource (271 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9783838261461, 3838261461, 3838201469
- OCLC
- ocn882246832
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Table of contents; Foreword: Slovak political thought as discovery; Acknowledgements; X. Introduction; X. 1. The Hungarian reform period and illegal Magyarisation; X. 2. The early Slovak national movement; X. 3. Codification, revolution and the congress of the Slavs; X. 4. Neo-Absolutism, the October diploma and the memorandum; X. 5. The Ausgleich, the Matica Slovenská and the nationality law of 1868; X. 6. The political situation until WWI and the emerging of the Slovakcitizenry; X. 7. Method, definitions, contents, hypothesis; X. 7. 1. Method; X. 7. 2. Definitions
- X. 7. 3 Contents, hypothesisI. Ján Francisci (1822 - 1905). Romanticism and Pragmatism; I. 1. Political goals; I. 1. 1. The three falcons and the revolution; I. 1. 2. The Pešťbudínske vedomosti and the memorandum of 1861; I. 2. Political legitimating; I. 2. 1. Pragmatism; Ján Francisci - life in brief; II. Ján Palarík (1822 - 1870). Liberalism and Constitutionalism; II. 1. Political goals; II. 1. 1. With civil rights toward a federation; II. 2. Political legitimating; II. 2. 1. Montesquieu or the spirit of The spirit of the laws; II. 2. 2. Critique of the Ausgleich
- II. 2. 3. The rejection of natural lawJán Palarík - life in brief27; III. Štefan Marko Daxner (1822 - 1892). Law and education.; III. 1. Political goals; III. 1. 1. The Slovak gymnasium in Veľka Revúca; III. 2. Political legitimating; III. 2. 1. Natural Law and Positive Law; III. 2. 2. Slovak Democratism; III. 2. 3. Distributive justice and moral death; Štefan Marko Daxner - life in brief; IV. František Víťazoslav Sasinek (1830 - 1914). History and eccentricity.; IV. 1. Political goals; IV. 1. 1. Language of communication; IV. 1. 2. The idea of power sharing; IV. 2. Political legitimating
- IV. 2. 1. Anti-LiberalismIV. 2. 2. Constitutionalism or absolutism?; IV. 2. 3. Slavic solidarity; IV. 2. 4. The historical catechism for the Slovaks; František Víťazoslav Sasinek - life in brief; V. Svetozár Hurban Vajanský (1847 - 1916). Messianism,Panslavism and the superiority of art.; V. 1. Political goals; V. 1. 1. The Slovak Messianism; V. 2. Political legitimating; V. 2. 1. Insights and outlooks; V. 2. 2. The rejection of modernity; Svetozár Hurban Vajanský - life in brief; Conclusion; 1. The autonomy of the okolie; 2. Sovereignty; 3. Method and philosophical influence; 4. Hypothesis
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