Entangled Paths Towards Modernity

Dimou Augusta

ISBN 10: 9639776386 / ISBN 13: 9789639776388

Published by Central European University Press, 2009

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pp. xiv + 434.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Entangled Paths Towards Modernity
• Publisher: Central European University Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9639776386
• ISBN 13: 9789639776388
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The book is a study in comparative intellectual history and discusses how socialist ideology emerged as an option of political modernity in the Balkans of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.Focusing on how technologies of ideological transfer and adaptation work, the book examines the introduction and contextualization of international socialist paradigms in the Southeast European periphery. At its core is the presentation of three case studies (Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece), intertwined at times through similar, but also divergent paths. Each case aspires to tell a different and yet complementary story with respect to the issue of modernity and socialism. The book analyses the introduction of socialism against the background and in conjunction to other prominent options of political modernity such as nationalism, liberalism and agrarianism.

About the Author

Augusta Dimou is Gerda Henkel Research Fellow and Visiting Fellow at the Department of Cultural Studies, Chair of Comparative European History and Culture at the University of Leipzig. She is a historian specializing in contemporary comparative European History with a regional focus on Southeast and East-Central Europe. She is currently completing her habilitation on the development of intellectual property rights and cultural politics in twentieth-century Eastern Europe.