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VYDÁVA HISTORICKÝ ÚSTAV SLOVENSKEJ AKADÉMIE VIED, V. V. I. ISSN 0018-2575 (print) ISSN 2585-9099 (online) EV 3084/09 Všetky obsahy sú čitateľom voľne dostupné podľa licencie Creative Commons CC BY 4.0. Indexovanie a abstraktovanie: Web of Science Core Collection: Arts & Humanities Citation Index Additional Web of Science Indexes: Current Contents Arts & Humanities Scopus CEEOL CEJSH EBSCO Historical Abstracts ESF (HUM) ERIH plus |
AKTUÁLNE ČÍSLO | REDAKCIA | POKYNY PRE AUTOROV | ARCHÍV | PREDPLATNÉ | O ČASOPISE | PUBLIKAČNÁ ETIKA | VÝZVY Re-emergence of the Language of History in Postsocialist Slovakia. On the Concept of Historical Democratic Imagination After 1989 Historický časopis, 2024, 72, 5, pp. 925-946, Bratislava Abstract: Shortly after the democratic revolution of 1989 it seemed that history ended and the emerging democratic order would focus on future. However, the conceptualization of the language of history and subsequent transformation of it into deliberate policies appeared as crucial within discourses of legitimacy. Besides what could be called “coming to terms with the national past”, other contributions could be seen as easily resolved by condemning nationalism. In this article, I will argue that liberal-democratic milieu, politicians, writers, historians and more broadly intellectuals, were actively contributing to debates on history, historiography and/or philosophy of history instead. In doing so, they constituted a key component of the post-socialist democracy-building. The case of post-socialist Slovakia is instrumental in shedding the light on viability of such imaginary as it had to be in communication with the growing nationalism that eventually lead to Czechoslovakia’s dissolution in 1993. I intend to excavate attempts of the post-dissident intellectuals to give the emerging democracy a meta narrative through actively pursuing and utilizing the language of history. In order to do so, I examine the variety of intellectual accounts through the analytical tool of the “historical democratic imagination”. While it built on the thought originating in the 1960s debates, I put emphasis on its adjustments and meaning-making through the post-socialist situation. Although, the liberal-democratic milieu did not adopt it and eventually gave way to a more politically utilizable condemnation of nationalism, I would argue the “historical democratic imagination” was a key element of “thinking post-socialist democracy” in Slovakia after the 1989 revolution. Key words: Liberal democracy. Philosophy of history. History. Historiography. Nationalism. Post-dissent. Post-socialism. Slovakia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/histcaso.2024.72.5.4
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