Thinking through Transition : : Liberal Democracy, Authoritarian Pasts, and Intellectual History in East Central Europe After 1989 / / ed. by Piotr Wcislik, Michal Kopeček.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Blaive, Muriel,; Blokker, Paul,; Bozóki, András,; Buzalka, Juraj,; Dujisin, Zoltán,; Egry, Gábor,; Gagyi, Ágnes,; Gdula, Maciej,; Holubec, Stanislav,; Hudek, Adam,; Kopeček, Michal,; Laczó, Ferenc,; Lóránd, Zsófia,; Mark, James,; Matyja, Rafał,; Pârvu, Camil Alexandru,; Roubal, Petr,; Saunders, Anna,; Szűcs, Zoltán Gábor,; Tyszka, Stanisław,; Wciślik, Piotr,; Znoj, Milan,; Đurašković, Stevo,
• HerausgeberIn: Kopeček, Michal,; Wcislik, Piotr,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (608 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Introduction: Towards an Intellectual History of Post-Socialism --; Liberalism: Dissident Illusions and Disillusions --; Five Faces of Post-Dissident Hungarian Liberalism: A Study in Agendas, Concepts, and Ambiguities --; “Totalitarianism” and the Limits of Polish Dissident Political Thought: Late Socialism and After --; Václav Havel, His Idea of Civil Society, and the Czech Liberal Tradition --; The (Re-)Emergence of Constitutionalism in East Central Europe --; Conservativism: A Counter-Revolution? --; Anti-Communism of the Future: Czech Post-Dissident Neoconservatives in Post-Communist Transformation --; Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience: Polish Conservatism 1979–2011 --; The Abortion of a “Conservative” Constitution-Making: A Discourse Analysis of the 1994–1998 Failed Hungarian Constitution-making Enterprise --; Populism: Endemic Pasts and Global Effects --; Syndrome or Symptom: Populism and Democratic Malaise in Post-Communist Romania --; The Illusion of Inclusion: Configurations of Populism in Hungary --; The Political Lives of Dead Populists in Post-socialist Slovakia --; The Left: Between Communist Legacy and Neoliberal Challenge --; Non-Post-Communist Left in Hungary after 1989: Diverging Paths of Leftist Criticism, Civil Activism, and Radicalizing Constituency --; The Architecture of Revival: Left-wing Ideas and Politics in Poland after 2002 --; The Formation of the Czech Post-Communist Intellectual Left: Twenty Years of Seeking an Identity --; Feminist Criticism of the “New Democracies” in Serbia and Croatia in the First Half of the 1990s --; Politics of History: Nations, Wars, Revolutions --; 1989 After 1989: Remembering the End of Communism in East-Central Europe --; A Fate for a Nation: Concepts of History and the Nation in Hungarian Politics, 1989–2010 --; From “Husakism” to “Mečiarism”: The National Identity-Building Discourse of the Slovak Left-wing Intellectuals in 1990s Slovakia --; Post-Communist Europe: On the Path to a Regional Regime of Remembrance? --; List of Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789633861103; 9783110780543
• DOI: 10.1515/9789633861103
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Piotr Wcislik, Michal Kopeček.

Thinking through Transition is the first concentrated effort to explore the most recent chapter of East Central European past from the perspective of intellectual history. Post-communism can be understood as a period of scarcity and preponderance of ideas, the dramatic eclipsing of the dissident legacy (as well as the older political traditions), and the rise of technocratic and post-political governance. This book, grounded in empirical research sensitive to local contexts, proposes instead a history of adaptations, entanglements, and unintended consequences. In order to enable and invite comparison, the volume is structured around major domains of political thought, some of them generic (liberalism, conservatism, the Left), others (populism and politics of history) deemed typical for post-socialism. However, as shown by the authors, the generic often turns out to be heavily dependent on its immediate setting, and the typical resonates with processes that are anything but vernacular.