Key Concepts of Romanian History

Alternative Approaches to Socio-Political Languages
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-615-5225-16-1
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 518 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 888 g

The theoretical analyses and interpretations contained in the studies of this volume focus on key-concepts such as: politics, politician, democracy, Europe, liberalism, constitution, property, progress, kinship, nation, national character and specificity, homeland, patriotism, education, totalitarianism, democracy, democratic, democratization, transition. The essays unveil specific aspects belonging to Romania's past and present. They also offer alternative perspectives on the Romanian culture through the relationship between the elite and society, and novel reflections on the delayed and unfinished modernization processes within the society and the state. The editors articulate the results coming from various sciences, such as history, linguistics, sociology, political sciences, and philosophy with the aim that the past and present profiles of Romania are better understood.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Neumann, Victor

Heinen, Armin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the English edition, Foreword, Is Rewriting Romanian History Useful? The Evolution of Socio-Political Concepts and Alternative Interpretations, On the Process of Writing the History of Romania: Methodological Issues, Some Reflections on Historical Semantics, Political Modernity and Romanian, History (1780–1939), The Concept of Patriotism in Romanian Culture, Romanian Liberalism (1821–1866), Democracy, Democratic, Democratization, The Concept of Progress: The Fraught Relation between Liberalism and State Intervention, The Concept of Property in Romania’s Economic-Legal History, The Notion of Europe from the Perspective of Romanian Historical Studies, Images of Europe – Images of Romania (1945/1948–2008), The Concept of Constitution in the History of Romanian Legal Thought, The Concept of National Style in Artistic Historiography Asserting a Critical Vocabulary, The Conceptualization of National Character in the Romanian Intellectual Tradition, Neam (Romanian for Kin) and Popor (Romanian for People): The Notions of Romanian Ethno-Centrism, The Concept of Totalitarianism in Romanian Socio-Political Languages, Transition, Transitions: The Conceptualization of Change in Romanian Culture, The History of Politics as a Dispute around the Concepts of Politics, Statesman, Political Person, Politician, Summary – Key-Concepts of Romanian History. Alternative Approaches to Socio-Political Languages, Contributors, Index of terms and concepts

Über Autor(innen)

Victor Neumann is Professor of Universal and Romanian Modern History at the the West University of Timisoara and Director of the Reinhart Koselleck International Doctoral School of Conceptual History, which he jointly founded at the same university with co-editor Armin Heinen, and which benefits from the financial support of the Volkswagen Foundation, Germany.

Armin Heninen is Professor of Pre-modern and Modern History at the University of Aachen. He studied history, political sciences and mathematics at the University of Frankfurt am Main, and he earned his PhD from the University of Trier. He obtained his docentship from the University of Saarbrücken. He is an invited professor at the University of Würzburg. He has extensively published in the fi eld of European, German, Dutch, American and French comparative history.