
Radicalism and indifference
Memory transmission, political formation and modernization in Hungary and Europe
- 284 pages
- English
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Radicalism and indifference
Memory transmission, political formation and modernization in Hungary and Europe
About this book
Most theories of radicalization focus on the birth of antidemocratic ideas, semantics, behavior patterns and organizations. However, such focus is one-sided: radicalization is as much about the forgetting of historical lessons and the weakening of a democratic consensus, as the spreading of populist ideas. A case study of public and private processes of memory transmission in Hungary reveals how the ambiguous relation to modernization affects political formation: the failures provoke populist reactions, while the successes result in political indifference. The combination of these two political cultures creates a dangerous compound including both the opportunity for the birth of antidemocratic semantics and their ignorance. The author analyzes the potential of such «incubation of radicalism» on a European survey.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- Situating Hungarian modernization: the Central European experience of modernity
- The public reconstruction of the past: from identity crisis to memory vacuum
- Memory transmittance and political formation in the family
- Political formation in divergent constellations of Hungarian modernization
- Radicalism and indifference: patterns of political culture in Europe
- Concluding remarks: incubating radicalism in Europe
- Bibliography