Mitteleuropa, Zentraleuropa, Mittelosteuropa

A Mental Map of Central Europe

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2397793
AutoresJacques Le Rider (0000-0002-3374-3543, ECOLE PRATIQUE DES HAUTES ETUDES, PARIS,, autor de correspondencia)
Año2008
Volumen11
Número2
Páginas155-169
Fecha de publicación2008-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEuropean Journal of Social Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1368-4310 • E-ISSN: 1461-7137
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1368431007087471
OpenAlexW2135716712
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas4

The German term 'Mitteleuropa' was coined to designate Central Europe at the time when the Habsburg monarchy exercised its domination over the Danube area and when the Eastern borders of the Reich proclaimed in 1871 were formed, thus from the end of the eighteenth century to the end of the First World War. Mitteleuropa constitutes an ambivalent 'lieu de mémoire', a notion in which Central Europe has invested its memory of the past and its identity: such a notion is negative when it brings to mind the mental map of German imperialism both exploited and perverted in the Third Reich; it is positive when it is interpreted as a federative idea, opening supranational perspectives associating the countries of German culture with Slavic peoples - the Hungarians, the Romanians - and with the Jews. Since the formation of the 'Habsburg myth' as a retrospective utopia of a defunct harmony of nationalities in the 'third Europe' situated between Western Europe and the Russian world, the Austrian tradition has become the focus of the new notion of 'Zentraleuropa', prefiguring Central European union

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