Nordic Paths to Modernity

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ID19945006
EditorsJohann Pall Arnason, Bjorn Wittrock
Year2012
Publication date2012-02-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueNordic paths to modernity (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/9780857452696
OpenAlexW4399381105
ISBN9780857452696
LanguageEN
Citations received12

Within the growing attention to the diverse forms and trajectories of modern societies, the Nordic countries are now widely seen as a distinctive and instructive case. While discussions have centred on the ‘Nordic model’ of the welfare state and its record of adaptation to the changing global environment of the late twentieth century, this volume’s focus goes beyond these themes. The guiding principle here is that a long-term historical-sociological perspective is needed to make sense of the Nordic paths to modernity; of their significant but not complete convergence in patterns, which for some time were perceived as aspects of a model to be emulated in other settings; and of the specific features that still set the five countries in question (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland) apart from one another. The contributors explore transformative processes, above all the change from an absolutistmilitary state to a democratic one with its welfarist phase, as well as the crucial experiences that will have significant implications on future developments

Epistemology · Modernity · European Cultural and National Identity · Philosophy

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