Liberty and the Search for Identity

Ivan Zoltan Denes, Iván Zoltán Dénes

• Publisher: Central European University Press
• Year: 2006
• Print ISBN:
  9789637326448
• eBook ISBN:
  9789633863633
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Modern History

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Michael Freeden: Foreword
• Editor’s Preface
• Liberalism and Nationalism: An Ambiguous Relationship
• I.WESTERN EUROPE
• 1. Scotland and England: Diverging PoliticalDiscourses
• 2. Radical Liberalism and Nationalismin Mid-Victorian Scotland
• 3. Dutch Liberals and Nineteenth-CenturyNational Traditions
• 4. Liberal Nationalism and Modern Regional Identity: Revolutionary Belgium, 1786–1830
• II. CENTRAL EUROPE
• 1. Unity or Liberty? German Liberalism Founding an Empire, 1850–1879
• 2. Switzerland: A European Model of Liberal Nationalism?
• 3. The Identity Problems of the Austro-German Liberals
• 4. Political Vocabularies of the Hungarian Liberals and Conservatives before 1848
• 5. The Liberalism of the Hungarian Nobility, 1825–1910
• 6. Marginal or Central? The Place of the Liberal Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Polish History
• 7. Czech Liberalism, 1848–1918
• III. EASTERN EUROPE, THE BALKANS AND SOUTHERN EUROPE
• 1. The Inherent Burden of Russian Liberalism
• 2. Empire and Nation in Russian LiberalThought
• 3. The Value System of Serb Liberalism
• 4. Building the State from the Roof Down: Varieties of Romanian Liberal Nationalism
• 5. The Interesting Anomaly of Balkan Liberalism
• 6. In Defiance of History: Liberal and National Attributes of the Ottoman-Turkish Path to Modernity
• List of Contributors
• Index