Entangled Paths Toward Modernity

Contextualizing Socialism and Nationalism in the Balkans
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-963-9776-38-8
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 474 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 1040 g

The book is a study in comparative intellectual history and discusses how socialist ideology emerged as an option of political modernity in the Balkans of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.Focusing on how technologies of ideological transfer and adaptation work, the book examines the introduction and contextualization of international socialist paradigms in the Southeast European periphery. At its core is the presentation of three case studies (Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece), intertwined at times through similar, but also divergent paths. Each case aspires to tell a different and yet complementary story with respect to the issue of modernity and socialism. The book analyses the introduction of socialism against the background and in conjunction to other prominent options of political modernity such as nationalism, liberalism and agrarianism.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dimou, Augusta

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments, List of Abbreviations, I. Introduction, II. Intellectuals, III. The Ambiguities of Modernity, IV. Caught up in the Contradictions of Modernity, V. Modernity Without Socialism, VI. Epilogue, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Augusta Dimou is Gerda Henkel Research Fellow and Visiting Fellow at the Department of Cultural Studies, Chair of Comparative European History and Culture at the University of Leipzig. She is a historian specializing in contemporary comparative European History with a regional focus on Southeast and East-Central Europe. She is currently completing her habilitation on the development of intellectual property rights and cultural politics in twentieth-century Eastern Europe.