Conservative ideology in the making / Ivan Zoltan Denes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dénes, Iván Zoltán.

Series:

Pasts incorporated.

Pasts incorporated, 1786-1438

Standardized Title:

Liberális kihívásra adott konzervatív válasz. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conservatism--Hungary--History--19th century.

Conservatism.

Liberalism--Hungary--History--19th century.

Liberalism.

Nationalism--Hungary--History--19th century.

Nationalism.

Political culture--Hungary--History--19th century.

Political culture.

Social classes--Hungary--History--19th century.

Social classes.

Minorities--Hungary--History--19th century.

Minorities.

Hungary--Politics and government--1699-1848.

Hungary.

Hungary--Politics and government--1849-1867.

Hungary--Social conditions--19th century.

Hungary--Ethnic relations--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 p.)

Place of Publication:

Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The fifty years or so preceding the watershed of 1848–49 witnessed the emergence of liberal nationalism in Hungary, along with a transmutation of conservatism which appeared then as a party and an ideological system in the political arena. The specific features of the conservatism, combining the protection of the status quo with some reform measures, its strategic vision, conceptual system, argumentation, assessment criteria and values require an in depth exploration and analysis. Different conservative groups were in the background or in opposition from 1848 to 1918, while in the period between the two World Wars, they constituted the overwhelming majority of ruling parties. During the one-party system, from 1949 to 1989, the liberals and conservatives—like all other political groups—were illegal, a status from which they could later emerge upon the change of the political system. The inheritance of the autocratic system frozen up and undigested by the one-party state was thawed after the peaceful regime change, the constitutional revolution and its discrete components began to be reactivated, including the enemy images of earlier discourses. "Liberal" and "conservative" had become state-party stigmas in line with fascist, reactionary, rightist, and bourgeois. In reaction to that, at first conservative then liberal, intellectual fashions and renascences unfolded in the 1980s. The attempts by liberal and conservative advocates to find predecessors did not favor an objective approach.The first step toward objectivity is establishing distance from the different kinds of enemy images and their political idioms. This is a pressing need because, although several pioneering works have appeared on different variants of the Hungarian liberalisms and conservatisms, there are no serious unbiased syntheses. This work is urgent because the political poles of the constitutional revolution and the ensuing period have up till now been described in terms of different conspiracy theories.

Contents:

Modernity and identity

Liberalisms and conservatisms

Images of the enemy

Conservatism

Its definition and types

Hungarian conservatives : context and dilemmas

The liberal challenge : nation-building through reforms

The conservative answer : law, order, and stability

What to preserve, what to give up, and what to modernize? (1839-1842)

The figure of the founding father

The overture to cautious progress : the memorandum

The first liberal-conservative press debate

Order-based modernity

Separation vs. unification (1842-1843)

Conservative reform

The Magyar nation and the non-Magyar nationalities

Us and them : aristocracy vs. democracy

Law and order : which kind? (1843-1844)

What is to be done with the counties?

Conservative arguments against the juries

The dietal weight of the cities

Failure of the diet : their interpretations

Journalists' offensive : issues and arguments (1845-1847)

Western models and Hungarian conditions

Constitutionalism

Toleration : its guarantees

Aristocracy, nation, and empire

Two liberal interpretations

Party programs (1846-1847)

The program of the conservatives

The opposition program

The differences

Conservative politics in defense (1847-1848)

The immediate precedent

Conservative positions and arguments

The defeat of the conservatives

Myth in the making

The conservatives in 1848/49

In opposition

"Outcasts" of the Ausgleich

The process of mythmaking

Epilogue

Symbolic link between three types of conservatives (1927)

Conservative master narrative (1920, 1933)

Metamorphoses narrationis (1942, 1947)

The constant core (1913-1955)

The ethnicist re-reading of the master narrative (1939)

Competing visions of national history.

Notes:

"Revised and supplemented version of Ivan Zoltan Denes' Liberalis kihivasra adott konzervativ valasz. Argumentum Kiado ; Bibo Istvan Szellemi Muhely, Budapest, 2008"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-003-71891-4

978-6-15521-178-2

978-615-5211-78-2

9786155211782

615-5211-78-7

1-283-24833-6

9786613248336

1-4416-4586-1

9781003718918

OCLC:

642693375