CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2008
| Author | Kovács, Ákos |
|---|---|
| Title | Conceptualizing the Community in Hungarian Pamphlet Literature in 1790-1791 |
| Summary | The subject of my investigation is the discursive strategies and political languages of the conceptualization of the community in the Hungarian pamphlet-literature of the early 1790’s, a period which marks an early phase of Hungarian nation-building. In this analysis, I focus on the possibilities of using and combining some findings of the so-called contextualist and conceptual history methods. One of the aims of my thesis is to provide a “photograph” of the different semantic structures and usages of the concept of community and its semantic matrix in order to make a further investigation possible concerning the comparison of this period with earlier and later times in Hungarian nation-building and Hungarian political thought. Concentrating on the authorial intentions, the collective works and the specific features of different political utterances relating to the conceptualization of the community, I would like to accentuate the peculiarities of the discursive space of the region, the complexity and ambiguity of certain concepts, or, in other words, some important dilemmas of the genesis of the modern social-political vocabulary in early-modern Hungary. |
| Supervisor | Laszlo Kontler; Balazs Trencsenyi |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2008/kovacs_akos.pdf |
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