Questions of Identity: Czech and Slovak Ideas of Nationality and Personality - Rilegato

Pynsent, Robert B.

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ISBN 10: 185866005X ISBN 13: 9781858660059

Casa editrice: Central European University Pr, 1994

Riassunto

Questions of Identity treats four varieties of conceptions of individual and social identity. This interdisciplinary book describes and analyzes four trends of thought that have prevailed at one time in most of Europe over the last two centuries: the idea of the responsible citizen, the concept of patriotism or nationalism, the loss of self, and "suffering" as a formative element in the "national character." In a section devoted to Vaclav Havel, Pynsent treats Havel's notion of personal identity as expressed in personal responsibility. Another section concerning national identity looks in particular at two early nineteenth-century Slovaks who rejected Slovak nationalism and whose ideas ultimately had a profound impact on East European thinking on nationality up to the fall of communism. A third section deals with the beginnings of Modernism and the apparent disintegration of the self in West European and Czech writers. The final section addresses Vladimir Paral's expositions of the Czech cult of national martyrs since St. Wenceslas and the extent to which the "martyr" complex remains part of Czech self-identification.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Robert B. Pynsent is Professor of Czech and Slovak Literature at the University of London.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Central European University Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 185866005X
• ISBN 13: 9781858660059
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 244