19th-Century Hungarian Political Thought and Culture

Towards Settlement with Austria, 1790-1867

Ferenc Hörcher

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781350202917
• eBook ISBN:
  9781350202931
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Storia
• Subtopic: Storia del XIX secolo

This volume presents the ideas of the main actors of the political scene in the Hungarian Kingdom during the long 19th century (1790-1920). Organised around key political thinkers, the book considers the most significant paradigms of thought associated with these figures and the critical political events of the day.

Beginning with an introductory overview of 19th-century Hungary in a European context, which includes the main features of Hungarian political thought, 19th-Century Hungarian Political Thought and Culture explores the fundamental characteristics of the country's political system and the geopolitical background to political discourse in the region at the time. The contributors reflect on the stories of some of the most influential voices, as well as their networks, impacts and legacies. Through this, the book is able to offer novel insights into how Western political culture was perceived and adapted in a country long considered by many to belong to the European periphery.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Contents
• List of contributors
• Preface
• Part 1
• 1 Historical and European context
• 2 Ideological debates of the Reform Era (1830‒48)
• 3 Constitutional and legal thought in the long nineteenth century
• 4 Non-Hungarian political thought in the context of ethnic conflicts in nineteenth-century Hungary
• Part 2
• 5 Hungarian constitutional thought between tradition and innovation in the age of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars
• 6 Ferenc Kazinczy (1759‒1831) and his age
• 7 Ferenc Kölcsey (1790‒1838)
• 8 Count István Széchenyi (1791‒1860)
• 9 Baron Miklós Wesselényi (1796‒1850)
• 10 Count Lajos Batthyány (1807‒49)
• 11 Lajos Kossuth (1802‒94)
• 12 Baron József Eötvös (1813‒71)
• 13 Baron Zsigmond Kemény (1814‒75)
• 14 Ferenc Deák (1803‒76)
• Index of Names
• Index of Subjects
• Copyright