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BibTeX citation key: Baer2003
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Baer, J. A. (2003). National Emancipation, not the Making of Slovakia: Ludovit Stur's Conception of the Slovak Nation (No. 2). Antigonish: Centre for Post-Communist Studies, St. Francis Xavier University.
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Categories: Citizenship
Keywords: Slovakia
Creators: Baer
Publisher: Centre for Post-Communist Studies, St. Francis Xavier University (Antigonish)
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Abstract
In 2003, Slovakia entered the second decade of its independent statehood. The dismemberment of the Czechoslovak Federation in 1993 was followed by a bumpy transition to democracy under the government of Vladimir Meciar. The year 2003 is also the 160th anniversary of the Slovak written language. Ludovit Stur’s (1815-1856) coinage of Slovak literary language in 1843 set the grounds for the national movement. This interdisciplinary essay concerns the political thought of Stur, the Lutheran vicar and ‘father of the Slovak language,’ on the historic background of the pre-1848 Slovak national movement. I shall analyze selected texts of Stur focusing on a) the development of his political thought and b) Romantic Pan-Slavism as the grand break in his thought. Stur was far from being spoiled by political success: after the crushed spring of nations in 1849, the first generation of the Slovak national movement virtually ceased to exist. Stur’s last essay Das Slawenthum und die Welt der Zukunft (Slavdom and the World of the Future) features his complete break with the West: only the union of all Slavs with Russia shall grant their freedom. Due to his elaborate argumentation, his essay can be considered a masterpiece of Central European political thought that features two crucial intellectual movements of the 19th century: Romanticism and Pan-Slavism.
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English
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