{"id":42022,"date":"2024-08-26T22:37:56","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T22:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=42022"},"modified":"2024-08-26T22:38:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T22:38:50","slug":"east-central-european-crisis-discourses-in-the-twentieth-century-a-never-ending-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=42022","title":{"rendered":"East Central European Crisis Discourses in the Twentieth Century: A Never-Ending Story?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Edited by Bal\u00e1zs Trencs\u00e9nyi, Lucija Baliki\u0107, Una Blagojevi\u0107 and Isidora Gruba\u010dki<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>440 Pages<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Published August 20, 2024 by Routledge<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>The term \u201ccrisis,\u201d with its complex history, has emerged as one of the pivotal notions of political modernity. As such, reconstructing the ways the discourse of crisis functioned in various contexts and historical moments gives us a unique insight not only into a series of conceptual transformations, but also into the underlying logic of key political and intellectual controversies of the last two centuries. Studying the ways crisis was experienced, conceptualized, and negotiated can contribute to the understanding of how various visions of time and history shape political thinking and, conversely, how political and social reconfigurations frame our assumptions about temporality and spatiality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A historical region wedged in between various competing imperial centers, East Central Europe has been an area often associated with crisis phenomena by both internal and external observers. Seeking to employ the regional gaze as a vantage point to reflect on issues which are relevant well beyond those countries between the Baltic and the Adriatic, this project is also in dialogue with a number of recent transnational attempts to rethink political and intellectual history with regard to the recurrent epistemological frames that structure the political and cultural debate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This book will thus be useful both for researchers, from the field of intellectual history and numerous adjacent fields, and graduate university students alike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Part I. Interwar Crises of Body and Soul<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" type=\"1\"><li>Bal\u00e1zs Trencs\u00e9nyi: \u201cCrisis without Catharsis? Crisis Discourses and the Problem of Political Modernity in Interwar East Central Europe\u201d<\/li><li>Johannes Bent and Liisi Keedus: \u201cContesting German \u2018Crisis Literature\u2019: Oswald Spengler in Interwar Hungarian and Romanian Reviews<\/li><li>Vilius Kubekas: \u201cConfronting the Spiritual Crisis: The Philosophical and Political Reorientation of Lithuanian Catholicism in the mid-1930s\u201d<\/li><li>Suzana Vuljevi\u0107: \u201cOrder Amid Chaos: The Crisis of Spirit and a Panoply of Pan-Balkan Solutions in Interwar Europe\u201d<\/li><li>Lucija Baliki\u0107: \u201cComing of Age with Crisis: Discourses on the \u2018National Body\u2019 in Youth Organizations of Interwar Yugoslavia and Hungary\u201d<\/li><li>Kristina And\u011blov\u00e1 and Isidora Gruba\u010dki: \u201cCrises of Feminism and Democracy in the Interwar Period. Yugoslav and Czechoslovak Entanglements\u201d<\/li><li>Katherine Lebow: \u201cBodies in Crisis: Women and Unemployment in Polish Sociological Research of the 1930s\u201d<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Part II. Crises of Transition To and From Socialism<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" type=\"1\"><li>Olga Byrska: \u201cCrisis, Revolution, Reconstruction?\u00a0Immediate Postwar Debates on Social and Political Transformation in Poland, 1944-1946\u201d<\/li><li>Julius Horvath: \u201cMarket Crisis and National Happiness: A Study of the Slovak and Czech Responses to Crisis in the Twentieth Century\u201d<\/li><li>Una Blagojevi\u0107: \u201cThe Cunning of Crisis and Yugoslav Marxist Revisionists\u201d<\/li><li>Stevo \u0110ura\u0161kovi\u0107: \u201cPredrag Matvejevi\u0107: The Crisis of Socialist Yugoslavia as a Crisis of Yugoslav Identity\u201d<\/li><li>Marko Zajc: \u201cThe <em>Nova revija<\/em> Magazine\u2019s 1986 Survey on the Yugoslav crisis\u201d<\/li><li>Benedek P\u00e1l: \u201c\u2018We all talk about crisis, but what do we mean by crisis?\u2019 Polish and Hungarian Intellectuals Negotiating the Crisis of State Socialism in the First Half of the 1980s\u201d<\/li><li>Viola L\u00e1szl\u00f3fi: \u201cThe Crisis of Biopolitics or Biopoliticizing the Crisis? Discourses on the Problems of Socialist Healthcare in Late Socialist Hungary\u201d<\/li><li>Martin Babi\u010dka: \u201cDiscourses of Moral and Ecological Crisis in Czech Post-Socialist Transformation\u201d<\/li><li>Tja\u0161a Konov\u0161ek: \u201cCrisis as Political Criticism: Slovenia, Post-communism, and the Conservative Turn\u201d<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Editor(s)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bal\u00e1zs Trencs\u00e9nyi <\/strong>is a professor at the Central European University History Department and the director of the CEU Institute for Advanced Study. He is one of the authors of a two-volume<em> History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe<\/em> (2016, 2018), alongside numerous other publications on East Central European intellectual history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lucija Baliki\u0107 <\/strong>is a PhD candidate at the Department of History, Central European University. Her research interests include intellectual and social history of late Austria-Hungary and interwar Yugoslavia. She published several research articles on history of knowledge production and body-politics in regional and international journals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Una Blagojevi\u0107<\/strong> is a PhD candidate at the Department of History, Central European University and a research assistant at the Babe\u0219-Bolyai University, Cluj. Her doctoral research focuses on the intellectual history of Marxist Humanism in socialist Yugoslavia, and she is broadly interested in the social, cultural, and gender histories of East Central Europe. She is a member of the ERC project The History of Feminist Political Thought and Women\u2019s Rights Discourses in East Central Europe 1929-2001 (HERESEE), hosted at the University of Vienna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Isidora Gruba\u010dki <\/strong>is a historian focusing on contemporary European history, specializing in the fields of transnational women\u2019s history and intellectual history of feminism in the interwar period. She works as research assistant at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana and is currently a member of the ERC project The History of Feminist Political Thought and Women&#8217;s Rights Discourses in East Central Europe 1929\u20132001 (HERESSEE), hosted at the University of Vienna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/East-Central-European-Crisis-Discourses-in-the-Twentieth-Century-A-Never-Ending-Story\/Trencsenyi-Balikic-Blagojevic-Grubacki\/p\/book\/9781032572055?srsltid=AfmBOopSIG3qnrgHizCNWyv9iBubyd-EACY5P_iEZxqNhg52e7uXujsH\">https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/East-Central-European-Crisis-Discourses-in-the-Twentieth-Century-A-Never-Ending-Story\/Trencsenyi-Balikic-Blagojevic-Grubacki\/p\/book\/9781032572055<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Crisis.jpg?fit=350%2C538&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":54276,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=54276","url_meta":{"origin":42022,"position":0},"title":"Rok Stergar, Vaclav Smidrkal (eds), &#8220;Nourishing Victory: Food Shortages and Post-Imperial Transition in the Bohemian Lands and Slovenia&#8221;","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"23. lipnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"The aggravating food shortage was the central internal crisis in Habsburg Austria during the First World War and posed a major challenge to the consolidation of the successor states. 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