Intellectuals and politics in Central Europe / edited by András Bozóki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bozóki, András.

Contributor:

Bozóki, András.

International Society for the Study of European Ideas. Conference 1996 : Utrecht, Netherlands)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intellectuals--Europe, Eastern--Congresses.

Intellectuals.

Communism and intellectuals--Europe, Eastern--Congresses.

Communism and intellectuals.

Europe, Eastern--Politics and government--1989---Congresses.

Europe, Eastern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Budapest : Central European University Press, 1998.

Summary:

Discussing the role of intellectuals in the political transition of the late 1980s and early 1990s and their participation in the political life of the new democracies of Central Europe, this book presents original essays from authors who discuss the eight countries in the region. In the Introduction, the editor gives a historical overview of the tradition of the political involvement of intellectuals in these countries, especially in the nineteenth century. The chapters which follow describe the typical political and social attitude of Central European intellectuals, including writers, poets, artists, and scientists. A unique feature of the book is that it deals not only with the role of intellectuals in the preparation of the peaceful revolutions in the individual countries, but also critically analyzes their role in the transition and their behavior in the emerging democracies. The most striking phenomenon, common to all the countries studied, is the disillusionment of intellectuals and their disappointment in the years following the transition, a period when the role of prophet should be replaced by that of politician for those who have chosen to stay in politics. This phenomenon has, in general, been much less subjected to systematic study than the role of intellectuals in the changes themselves.

Contents:

Dissenting intellectuals and plain dissenters : the cases of Poland and East Germany / Helena Flam

Strategies of intellectuals : Romania under Communist rule in comparative perspective / Irina Culic

Romanian political intellectuals before and after the revolution / Alina Mungiu-Pippidi

From imagined to actually existing democracy : intellectuals in Slovenia / Ivan Bernik

Words and death : Serbian nationalist intellectuals / Nenad Dimitrijević

Between tradition and politics : intellectuals after Communism / Marian Kempny

Inegalitarian nature of Hungary's intellectual political culture / Bill Lomax

Politics of conviction : the rise and fall of Czech intellectual-politicians / Aviezer Tucker

Green intellectuals in Slovakia / Edward Šnajdr

Intellectuals and democracy : the political thinking of intellectuals / András Körösényi

Reaction as progress : economists as intellectuals / József Böröcz

Rhetoric of action : the language of the regime change in Hungary / András Bozóki.

Notes:

Contains first versons of most of the papers delivered in August 1996 in Utrecht at a workshop of the Fifth International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI).

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-003-72024-2

0-585-05847-4

963-386-570-0

9781003720249

OCLC:

1295277530