CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Nagy, Kristóf |
|---|---|
| Title | Aesthetics and Politics of Ressentiment-The Inconnu Group's Shift Towards National Populism |
| Summary | This work examines the Inconnu Group’s trajectory from the apolitical artistic radicalism through their involvement into the dissident intelligentsia of the 1980s to the national populist shift of the founders of the Group. The thesis aims to answer the puzzle that how it is possible that the Inconnu Group has not integrated into the new, liberal democracy of the 1989s but restructured its anti-communist anger against the new regime after 1989. The thesis aims to understand the aesthetical and political roots of the founders’ national populist shift and anti-establishment anger through the inquiry of the Inconnu Group’s activities in the 1980s. For this reason Chapter 1 focuses on the failure of the avant-garde aesthetical project of the Group. Chapter 2 aims to understand how the Inconnu Group’s interactions with different social fields shaped their position. Finally, Chapter 3 examines the transformation of the Inconnu Group’s political ideologies from the anarchist vanguard position towards national populism. The thesis argues that in the 1980s the Inconnu Group’s focus shifted from aesthetics to politics, and they constructed their own position as anti-communist moral crusaders. However, with the fall of the state-socialism, the Group, due its limited integration into the social fields of the 1980s and their national populist shift that happened in the 1980s, has not given up its critique but restructured it and continued its moral crusade, but now against the new liberal democracy and its former allies, the dissident intellectuals. |
| Supervisor | Fabiani, Jean-Louis; Trencsényi, Balázs |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/nagy_kristof.pdf |
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