Wavering Friendship: Liberal and National Ideas in Nineteenth Century East Central Europe

Ab Imperio ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 2000 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 69-90
Author(s):  
Maciej Janowski
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central

Theories of Language

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Fellerer
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
The Political ◽  
The West ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
East Central ◽  
The Third ◽  
Political Implications

This chapter identifies key notions about the nature and workings of language and their wider political implications in Europe from around 1789 to the first decades of the nineteenth century. There are at least three formations, aesthetic and philosophical, linguistic, and political. Even though treated under separate headings for ease of exposition, they are meant to meet in this introduction in response to more granular surveys. The political dimension in particular tends to be left to historians or to philologists who deal with that part of the continent where it first gained real prominence: East and East Central Europe. Thus, after the first two sections on aspects of philosophy and early linguistics, where the focus is on Germany with France and England, the third section on language and nation moves eastwards to the Slavonic-speaking lands, to finally return back, albeit very briefly, to the West. The main purpose of this survey to provide introduction and guidance.

Die Stadt, Der Adel Und Das Theater. Prag Und Lemberg Im 19. Jahrhundert Im Vergleich

2006 ◽  
Vol 33 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 99-119
Author(s):  
Philipp Ther
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Power Struggles ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Political Groups ◽  
Opera Houses

AbstractThis article examines nobles' influence on the culture of cities in East Central Europe. In a follow-up to his latest book, the author compares the opera theatres in Lemberg and Prague, and considers how they positioned themselves vis-á-vis their respective cities. The article explains the rise and fall of aristocratic dominance that for a long time ran counter to the embourgeoisement of the opera stages of Western Europe. In East Central Europe, the aristocracy was vital in establishing public theatres which became the most significant competitors of court theatres in the first half of the nineteenth century. The article also analyses power struggles over the theatre between various social and political groups in the second half of the nineteenth century, when the intelligentsia increasingly questioned nobles' domination of the theatre. Although these power struggles destabilized the respective opera houses at times, they contributed to the identification of the two cities with them. The article ends by outlining how Prague and Lemberg fashioned themselves as "opera cities."

Peculiarities of the Translation and Adaptation of the Concept of Nation in East-Central Europe

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-101
Author(s):  
Victor Neumann
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Controversial Issue ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Central European ◽  
Political Cultures ◽  
East Central European

This article explores the controversial issue of concepts defining the East-Central European Romanian and Hungarian identities (nem, neam, popor, nép). It specifically focuses on the translation and adaptation of the German concept of nation by examining the inclusive or exclusive meanings this concept acquired in these two languages and political cultures during the first half of the nineteenth century.

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