Miroslav Hroch
Biographic Data
| ID | 503269 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miroslav Hroch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miroslav |
| FAMILY NAME | Hroch |
| SIGNATURE | HROCH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Charles University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Eingegangene Bücher
National Romanticism
As a homage to Miroslav Hroch (who turned 90 in 2022), the editorial board of SNM has decided to republish Hroch’s article dedicated to the subject of ‘National Romanticism’ (published by Central European University Press in 2007), thereby promoting readers (as Hroch has stated too in the interview conducted with him) to go beyond his influential work Social Preconditions and also pay attention to his later work which further developed and nuance…
Dilema Dos Anos 1990
O ensaio se dirige aos intelectuais que consideram os países pós-comunistas como focos de um nacionalismo irracional. São apontados mal-entendidos terminológicos e metodológicos acerca do uso da palavra nacionalismo. Idéias sobre interesses nacionais reais ou parcialmente imaginados acompanham a existência de todas as nações. O tipo prevalecente de formação nacional na Europa Central e Oriental ocorreu através de movimentos nacionais, iniciados p…
National Movements with and without Religion
In order to understand the role of religion in the formation of European nations, we need to differentiate the terms we are using when we analyse their relationship. In the case of nation formation, my point of departure is to distinguish two basic types of process: the case of nation-states, i. e. nations with “their own” state and high culture since the Middle Ages, and the case of “smaller nations”, which emerged through national movements, wh…
The nation as the cradle of nationalism and patriotism
This paper argues against dismissing as ‘populist nationalism’ every positive view of one's nation and ignoring patriotism as its antithesis. The European nation exists in two senses: as a large ‘social group’, a community of real people, and as an abstract community of cultural values promoted by intellectual elites grounded in a humanities‐based education. The widespread prejudice that condemns every positive expression of one's relationship to…
Obecné, světové, globální dějiny
Autor v návaznosti na diskusní příspěvek Jana Horského „Obecné dějiny“, „obsahová filozofie dějin“ a evoluční teorie ohledává proměny vztahu české historiografie k pojmu obecné dějiny od 60. do 90. let 20. století, přičemž upozorňuje na komplikovaný vztah českých národních dějin k dějinám ne-národním, resp. mimonárodním. Spolu s tím autor předkládá šest způsobů žánrového vymezení mimonárodních dějin s důrazem na jejich náročnost a přínos, resp. n…
Reflexões sobre a história nacional
No século XIX, escrever a história nacional tornou-se imprescindível à formação nacional européia. Ter sua"própria" história era condição básica para uma nação ser aceita, não apenas no âmbito internacional, mas, sobretudo, internamente. Como elemento de mobilização nacional, buscava reforçar a identificação com a nação, legitimava a existência nacional, assegurava a seus membros uma espécie de imortalidade, ajudava a criar ou fortalecer valores …
Národ jako evropské specifikum, jak slovem (de)formovat historickou i současnou realitu
Tato studie se pokouší doložit několik tezí o tom, jak globalizace ovlivnila posuny v chápání termínů národ a nacionalismus. Za prvé demonstruji, že národ se formoval jako specificky evropský fenomén v procesu modernizace a jeho pozitivní konotace se vyvíjela v návaznosti na specificky evropské myšlenkové proudy od humanismu přes reformaci po osvícenství. Identifikace jedince s národem se označovala termínem vlastenectví (patriotismus). Za druhé,…
Gellnerova periodizace očima historika
The contribution tries to demonstrate possibilities of interelations between history and social sciences and presents a critical analysis of Gellner’s book from the point of view of a historian. It deals above all with his interpretation of the transition from the time of the “sword” and that of the “book”, which means to a historian the transition from the pre-modern towards the modern society. The author argues that historians have above all pr…
Nationalism, Historical Aspects of
National Movements in the Habsburg and Ottoman Empires
The development towards modern nation-states in the Habsburg and Ottoman Empires proceeded as a series of national movements acting on behalf of subordinate ethnic communities and seeking the attributes of a fully fledged nation. These movements had three main aims: the development of national culture based on the local language, the achievement of some degree of political rights and self-administration, and the formation of a full social structu…
Three Encounters with Karl W. Deutsch
The author approaches the works of Karl W. Deutsch from the position of a historian and presents three aspects of his own encounters with Deutsch's writings. First, he describes how he applied some of the methodological principles in Deutsch's concept of nation-building to his own research work. Second, he presents his opinion on the place Deutsch occupies in the evolution of 'theories of nationalism'. Third, he reflects on how Deutsch's The Nerv…
Philipp Ther über das Nationaltheater im Kontext der europäischen Operngeschichte
Learning from Small Nations
Leading scholar of national questions discusses his personal trajectory and theoretical development, against the backdrop of the Czech experience. Sociological and historical roots of national feeling, and comparative perspectives on their European destinies
Le sionisme est-il un nationalisme
Il sionismo è un nazionalismo ? Questo teste è la traduzione di una riflessione del grande storico ceco, specialista dei nazionalismi sorti nel seno delle «piccole nazioni» europei dell'Ottocento. Analizza il sionismo, con le sue riuscite ma anche i suoi fallimenti nella mobilitazione degli Ebrei europei, e li inserisce nella famiglia dei vari nazionalismi
From ethnic group toward the modern nation
Historians usually try to understand and interpret the reasons for the successful result of national movements. Less attractive seems to be the question, why the early ‘nationalists’ took the decision to persuade the members of their ethnie to accept a new national identity, i.e., why did Phase B start? The author of this article formulated many years ago the hypothesis that this decision had to do with the identity crisis caused by great reforms…
De l'ethnicité à la nation. Un chemin oublié vers la modernité
De l'ethnicité à la nation Un chemin oublié vers la modernité Dans cet article, l'auteur s'interroge sur la manière dont les groupes ethniques se sont transformés en nations dans la modernité. Il soutient qu'on ne peut étudier cette transition sans analyser la modernisation et la rupture des liens, des valeurs et des identités que celle-ci induisit dans le monde d'hier. En lieu et place se forgèrent des identités régionales et ethnonationales. L'…
The Construction of Czech National History
no abstract
An unwelcome national identity, or what to do about ‘nationalism’ in the post‐communist countries
This critical essay is addressed to those Western intellectuals who draw the conclusion that contemporary development in post-communist countries is dominated primarily by the growth of irrational and destructive nationalism. A number of terminological and methodological misunderstandings are pointed out. Nation-forming has occurred in the form of national movements, a type which started from a non-dominant ethnic group and not from an Early—Mode…
An unwelcome national identity, or what to do about ‘nationalism’ in the post-communist countries
This critical essay is addressed to those Western intellectuals who draw the conclusion that contemporary development in post-communist countries is dominated primarily by the growth of irrational and destructive nationalism. A number of terminological and methodological misunderstandings are pointed out. Nation-forming has occurred in the form of national movements, a type which started from a non-dominant ethnic group and not from an Early—Mode…
Nationalism and National Movements
This article compares the ‘new nationalism’ in post‐communist countries since the 1980s with the ‘classical’ national movements o the nineteenth century. Looking for analogies and differences between these two processes, it seeks to achieve a better understanding and more profound interpretation of contemporary ‘nationalism’. Most important analogies are: both national movements emerged as a result of (and as an answer to) the crisis and disinteg…
Notions of nationalism
In recent years, following the end of the cold war and the relative simplicities of the bipolar confrontation, nationalism has re-emerged as a dominant force and ideology in our world. Everywhere, peoples who had been confined within the borders of countries with which they did not identify, and whose regimes they intensely disliked, have been seeking self-determination and democracy. Notions of Nationalism, as the title implies, is an open-minde…
National Self-Determination from a Historical Perspective
ResumeCet article décrit le concept d'autodétermination nationale comme la dernière étape de développements européens relevant de la Modernité. A ses yeux, le facteur décisif, dans ce processus, furent l'émergence, l'intensité et la pertinence sociale de l'identité nationale, plutôt que l'idéologie du nationalisme. Cet essai décrit les trois phases distinctes des mouvements nationaux, par rapport à une perspective historique comparée et se concen…
Linguistic programme—romanticism—nationalism (the czech case)
L'A. examine differentes etapes du programme linguistique par rapport au romantisme et au nationalisme en Tchecoslovaquie a la fin du 18 e siecle et au debut du 19 e siecle
From National Movement to the Fully-formed Nation
Nationalism and National Movements
This article compares the ‘new nationalism’ in post‐communist countries since the 1980s with the ‘classical’ national movements o the nineteenth century. Looking for analogies and differences between these two processes, it seeks to achieve a better understanding and more profound interpretation of contemporary ‘nationalism’. Most important analogies are: both national movements emerged as a result of (and as an answer to) the crisis and disinteg…
National Self-Determination from a Historical Perspective
ResumeCet article décrit le concept d'autodétermination nationale comme la dernière étape de développements européens relevant de la Modernité. A ses yeux, le facteur décisif, dans ce processus, furent l'émergence, l'intensité et la pertinence sociale de l'identité nationale, plutôt que l'idéologie du nationalisme. Cet essai décrit les trois phases distinctes des mouvements nationaux, par rapport à une perspective historique comparée et se concen…
From ethnic group toward the modern nation
Historians usually try to understand and interpret the reasons for the successful result of national movements. Less attractive seems to be the question, why the early ‘nationalists’ took the decision to persuade the members of their ethnie to accept a new national identity, i.e., why did Phase B start? The author of this article formulated many years ago the hypothesis that this decision had to do with the identity crisis caused by great reforms…
The nation as the cradle of nationalism and patriotism
This paper argues against dismissing as ‘populist nationalism’ every positive view of one's nation and ignoring patriotism as its antithesis. The European nation exists in two senses: as a large ‘social group’, a community of real people, and as an abstract community of cultural values promoted by intellectual elites grounded in a humanities‐based education. The widespread prejudice that condemns every positive expression of one's relationship to…
How much does Nation Formation Depend on Nationalism
National Movements with and without Religion
In order to understand the role of religion in the formation of European nations, we need to differentiate the terms we are using when we analyse their relationship. In the case of nation formation, my point of departure is to distinguish two basic types of process: the case of nation-states, i. e. nations with “their own” state and high culture since the Middle Ages, and the case of “smaller nations”, which emerged through national movements, wh…
De l'ethnicité à la nation. Un chemin oublié vers la modernité
De l'ethnicité à la nation Un chemin oublié vers la modernité Dans cet article, l'auteur s'interroge sur la manière dont les groupes ethniques se sont transformés en nations dans la modernité. Il soutient qu'on ne peut étudier cette transition sans analyser la modernisation et la rupture des liens, des valeurs et des identités que celle-ci induisit dans le monde d'hier. En lieu et place se forgèrent des identités régionales et ethnonationales. L'…
The Construction of Czech National History
no abstract
From National Movement to the Fully-formed Nation
Der deutsche Bauernkrieg 1524/25
How much does Nation Formation Depend on Nationalism
Linguistic programme—romanticism—nationalism (the czech case)
L'A. examine differentes etapes du programme linguistique par rapport au romantisme et au nationalisme en Tchecoslovaquie a la fin du 18 e siecle et au debut du 19 e siecle
From National Movement to the Fully-formed Nation
Notions of nationalism
In recent years, following the end of the cold war and the relative simplicities of the bipolar confrontation, nationalism has re-emerged as a dominant force and ideology in our world. Everywhere, peoples who had been confined within the borders of countries with which they did not identify, and whose regimes they intensely disliked, have been seeking self-determination and democracy. Notions of Nationalism, as the title implies, is an open-minde…
National Self-Determination from a Historical Perspective
ResumeCet article décrit le concept d'autodétermination nationale comme la dernière étape de développements européens relevant de la Modernité. A ses yeux, le facteur décisif, dans ce processus, furent l'émergence, l'intensité et la pertinence sociale de l'identité nationale, plutôt que l'idéologie du nationalisme. Cet essai décrit les trois phases distinctes des mouvements nationaux, par rapport à une perspective historique comparée et se concen…
An unwelcome national identity, or what to do about ‘nationalism’ in the post‐communist countries
This critical essay is addressed to those Western intellectuals who draw the conclusion that contemporary development in post-communist countries is dominated primarily by the growth of irrational and destructive nationalism. A number of terminological and methodological misunderstandings are pointed out. Nation-forming has occurred in the form of national movements, a type which started from a non-dominant ethnic group and not from an Early—Mode…
An unwelcome national identity, or what to do about ‘nationalism’ in the post-communist countries
This critical essay is addressed to those Western intellectuals who draw the conclusion that contemporary development in post-communist countries is dominated primarily by the growth of irrational and destructive nationalism. A number of terminological and methodological misunderstandings are pointed out. Nation-forming has occurred in the form of national movements, a type which started from a non-dominant ethnic group and not from an Early—Mode…
Nationalism and National Movements
This article compares the ‘new nationalism’ in post‐communist countries since the 1980s with the ‘classical’ national movements o the nineteenth century. Looking for analogies and differences between these two processes, it seeks to achieve a better understanding and more profound interpretation of contemporary ‘nationalism’. Most important analogies are: both national movements emerged as a result of (and as an answer to) the crisis and disinteg…
The Construction of Czech National History
no abstract
De l'ethnicité à la nation. Un chemin oublié vers la modernité
De l'ethnicité à la nation Un chemin oublié vers la modernité Dans cet article, l'auteur s'interroge sur la manière dont les groupes ethniques se sont transformés en nations dans la modernité. Il soutient qu'on ne peut étudier cette transition sans analyser la modernisation et la rupture des liens, des valeurs et des identités que celle-ci induisit dans le monde d'hier. En lieu et place se forgèrent des identités régionales et ethnonationales. L'…
From ethnic group toward the modern nation
Historians usually try to understand and interpret the reasons for the successful result of national movements. Less attractive seems to be the question, why the early ‘nationalists’ took the decision to persuade the members of their ethnie to accept a new national identity, i.e., why did Phase B start? The author of this article formulated many years ago the hypothesis that this decision had to do with the identity crisis caused by great reforms…
Le sionisme est-il un nationalisme
Il sionismo è un nazionalismo ? Questo teste è la traduzione di una riflessione del grande storico ceco, specialista dei nazionalismi sorti nel seno delle «piccole nazioni» europei dell'Ottocento. Analizza il sionismo, con le sue riuscite ma anche i suoi fallimenti nella mobilitazione degli Ebrei europei, e li inserisce nella famiglia dei vari nazionalismi
Learning from Small Nations
Leading scholar of national questions discusses his personal trajectory and theoretical development, against the backdrop of the Czech experience. Sociological and historical roots of national feeling, and comparative perspectives on their European destinies
Philipp Ther über das Nationaltheater im Kontext der europäischen Operngeschichte
Three Encounters with Karl W. Deutsch
The author approaches the works of Karl W. Deutsch from the position of a historian and presents three aspects of his own encounters with Deutsch's writings. First, he describes how he applied some of the methodological principles in Deutsch's concept of nation-building to his own research work. Second, he presents his opinion on the place Deutsch occupies in the evolution of 'theories of nationalism'. Third, he reflects on how Deutsch's The Nerv…
National Movements in the Habsburg and Ottoman Empires
The development towards modern nation-states in the Habsburg and Ottoman Empires proceeded as a series of national movements acting on behalf of subordinate ethnic communities and seeking the attributes of a fully fledged nation. These movements had three main aims: the development of national culture based on the local language, the achievement of some degree of political rights and self-administration, and the formation of a full social structu…
Nationalism, Historical Aspects of
Národ jako evropské specifikum, jak slovem (de)formovat historickou i současnou realitu
Tato studie se pokouší doložit několik tezí o tom, jak globalizace ovlivnila posuny v chápání termínů národ a nacionalismus. Za prvé demonstruji, že národ se formoval jako specificky evropský fenomén v procesu modernizace a jeho pozitivní konotace se vyvíjela v návaznosti na specificky evropské myšlenkové proudy od humanismu přes reformaci po osvícenství. Identifikace jedince s národem se označovala termínem vlastenectví (patriotismus). Za druhé,…
Gellnerova periodizace očima historika
The contribution tries to demonstrate possibilities of interelations between history and social sciences and presents a critical analysis of Gellner’s book from the point of view of a historian. It deals above all with his interpretation of the transition from the time of the “sword” and that of the “book”, which means to a historian the transition from the pre-modern towards the modern society. The author argues that historians have above all pr…
Reflexões sobre a história nacional
No século XIX, escrever a história nacional tornou-se imprescindível à formação nacional européia. Ter sua"própria" história era condição básica para uma nação ser aceita, não apenas no âmbito internacional, mas, sobretudo, internamente. Como elemento de mobilização nacional, buscava reforçar a identificação com a nação, legitimava a existência nacional, assegurava a seus membros uma espécie de imortalidade, ajudava a criar ou fortalecer valores …
Obecné, světové, globální dějiny
Autor v návaznosti na diskusní příspěvek Jana Horského „Obecné dějiny“, „obsahová filozofie dějin“ a evoluční teorie ohledává proměny vztahu české historiografie k pojmu obecné dějiny od 60. do 90. let 20. století, přičemž upozorňuje na komplikovaný vztah českých národních dějin k dějinám ne-národním, resp. mimonárodním. Spolu s tím autor předkládá šest způsobů žánrového vymezení mimonárodních dějin s důrazem na jejich náročnost a přínos, resp. n…
The nation as the cradle of nationalism and patriotism
This paper argues against dismissing as ‘populist nationalism’ every positive view of one's nation and ignoring patriotism as its antithesis. The European nation exists in two senses: as a large ‘social group’, a community of real people, and as an abstract community of cultural values promoted by intellectual elites grounded in a humanities‐based education. The widespread prejudice that condemns every positive expression of one's relationship to…
National Movements with and without Religion
In order to understand the role of religion in the formation of European nations, we need to differentiate the terms we are using when we analyse their relationship. In the case of nation formation, my point of departure is to distinguish two basic types of process: the case of nation-states, i. e. nations with “their own” state and high culture since the Middle Ages, and the case of “smaller nations”, which emerged through national movements, wh…
National Romanticism
As a homage to Miroslav Hroch (who turned 90 in 2022), the editorial board of SNM has decided to republish Hroch’s article dedicated to the subject of ‘National Romanticism’ (published by Central European University Press in 2007), thereby promoting readers (as Hroch has stated too in the interview conducted with him) to go beyond his influential work Social Preconditions and also pay attention to his later work which further developed and nuance…
Political science (19 works) · Politics (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Nationalism (10 works) · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics (9 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (8 works) · Political economy (8 works)