Negotiating Modernity: Cultural Reform in 1920s Hungary
Herzog, Stephen Michael
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Description
Title
Negotiating Modernity: Cultural Reform in 1920s Hungary
Author(s)
Herzog, Stephen Michael
Issue Date
2003
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Hitchins, Keith
Department of Study
History
Discipline
History
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
History, European
Language
eng
Abstract
"Because other central and eastern European societies have exhibited similar programs and similar debates between ""Westernizers"" and ""nativists,"" my dissertation provides an important comparative perspective. Viewing central and eastern European history as a process of negotiating the contradictory desires in approaching modernity provides a new, more complex explanation for the polarization of the region's societies, their political instability and their infamous manifestations of authoritarianism, illiberality, ethnic conflict and anti-Semitism. No longer viewed as aberrations arising from an inadequate understanding of modernity, such manifestations can be seen, to the contrary, as the direct outcome of ever-more intensive, deliberate and conscious efforts to establish a relationship with the spirit of the moment."
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