A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe
Volume II: Negotiating Modernity in the 'Short Twentieth Century' and Beyond, Part II: 1968-2018
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 1 November 2018
- ISBN 9780198829607
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages402 pages
- Size 241x164x29 mm
- Weight 752 g
- Language English 300
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Short description:
A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe, Volume II Part II examines the defeat of the vision of 'socialism with a human face' in 1968 and the political discourses produced by the various 'consolidation' or 'normalization' regimes. It closes with pertinent questions about the fragility of the democratic order globally.
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A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe is a synthetic work, authored by an international team of researchers, covering twenty national cultures and 250 years. It goes beyond the conventional nation-centered narratives and presents a novel vision especially sensitive to the cross-cultural entanglement of political ideas and discourses. Its principal aim is to make these cultures available for the global 'market of ideas' and revisit some of the basic assumptions about the history of modern political thought, and modernity as such.
The present volume is the final part of the project, following Volume I: Negotiating Modernity in the 'Long Nineteenth Century', and Volume II, Part I: Negotiating Modernity in the 'Short Twentieth Century' (1918-1968) (OUP, 2018). Its starting point is the defeat of the vision of 'socialism with a human face' in 1968 and the political discourses produced by the various 'consolidation' or 'normalization' regimes. It continues with mapping the exile communities' and domestic dissidents' critical engagement with the local democratic and anti-democratic traditions as well as with global trends. Rather than achieving the coveted 'end of history', however, the liberal democratic order created in East Central Europe after 1989 became increasingly contested from left and right alike. Thus, instead of a comfortable conclusion pointing to the European integration of most of these countries, the book closes with a reflection on the fragility of democracy in this part of the world and beyond.
[the reader] will receive something like a universal formula encompassing the history of the region's political thought from the eighteenth century until the present ... The merit of this book is that it has introduced -- hopefully for good -- a whole series of previously-missing links into international academic discourse ... it is really worthwhile to read this weighty work.
Table of Contents:
Authors' Note
Late State Socialism: Consolidation, Legitimization, and Reform from Above
The raison d'état of 'really existing socialism'
National communism: Liberalization or neo-Stalinism?
The dilemmas of perestroika reformism
Political Thought in Exile
Ideological, generational, and institutional cleavages
The intellectual battle with communism
Dissidents and Opposition Movements
The emergence of dissident discourses and subcultures
Dialogue and empowerment
The identity politics of the dissidents
Toward a self-limiting revolution
PART III: Farewell to Modernity? Thinking Politics After the' End of History'
Velvet Revolutions and the Thorny Paths of Transition
Visions of democratic transformation
The ambiguities of the 'liberal consensus'
Coming to terms with the past
Church, religion, and democracy
'Rebuilding the Boat on the Open Sea'
The dilemmas of state-building and constitutional reforms
The specter of ethnopopulism
Modes of coexistence
In Search of a New Ideology
The 'culture wars' of the 2000s
Radicalizing democracy
Centers and peripheries
A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe: Volume II: Negotiating Modernity in the 'Short Twentieth Century' and Beyond, Part II: 1968-2018
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