Key concepts of Romanian history : alternative approaches to socio-political languages / edited by Victor Neumann and Armin Heinen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Neumann, Victor.

Heinen, Armin.

Standardized Title:

Istoria României prin concepte. English

Language:

English

Romani

Subjects (All):

Neumann, Victor author, editor of compilation.

Neumann, Victor.

Heinen, Armin author, editor of compilation.

Heinen, Armin.

Romania--Historiography.

Romania.

Romania--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 504 pages)

Place of Publication:

Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2013.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Foreword / Victor Neumann, Armin Heinen

Is rewriting Romanian history useful? : the evolution of socio-political concepts and alternative interpretations / Victor Neumann

On the process of writing the history of Romania : methodological issues / Armin Heinen

Some reflections on historical semantics, political modernity and Romanian history (1780-1939) / Alexandre Escudier

The concept of patriotism in Romanian culture / Klaus Bochmann

Romanian liberalism (1821-1866) / Keith Hitchins

Democracy, democratic, democratization / Wim van Meurs

The concept of progress : the fraught relation between liberalism and state intervention / Angela Harre

The concept of property in Romania's economic-legal history / Dietmar Müller

The notion of Europe from the perspective of Romanian historical studies / Hans Christian Maner

Images of Europe : images of Romania (1945/1948-2008) / Armin Heinen

The concept of constitution in the history of Romanian legal thought / Edda Binder Iijima

The concept of national style in artistic historiography : asserting a critical vocabulary / Ruxandra Demetrescu

The conceptualization of national character in the Romanian intellectual tradition / Balázs Trencsényi

Neam (Romanian for kin) and popor (Romanian for people) : the notions of Romanian ethno-centrism / Victor Neumann

The concept of totalitarianism in Romanian socio-political languages / Victor Neumann

Transition, transitions : the conceptualization of change in Romanian culture / Mirela-Luminita Murgescu, Bogdan Murgescu

The history of politics as a dispute around the concepts of politics, statesman political person, politician / Armin Heinen

Summary : key-concepts of Romanian history : alternative approaches to socio-political languages / Victor Neumann, Armin Heinen.

Notes:

Originally published in Romanian under title: Istoria României prin concepte. Iași : Polirom, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-003-72036-6

615-5225-58-3

9781003720362

OCLC:

838124931

Publisher Number:

2027/heb32281 hdl