The value systems of liberals and conservatives in Hungary, 1830–1848

Bibliographic Data

ID8958634
AuthorsIván Zoltán Dénes (Institute of Philosophy, corresponding author)
Year1993
Volume36
Issue4
Pages825-850
Publication date1993-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Historical Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0018-246X • E-ISSN: 1469-5103
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0018246x00014527
OpenAlexW1983488826
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited25

The challenge of Joseph II's enlightened absolutist reforms in the 1780s imposed upon the Hungarian political opinion the painful dilemma of choosing between ‘fatherland’ and ‘progress’, between ‘nation’ and ‘civilization’, between national identity and modernization. These responses created the conceptual basis for the emergence of the modern Hungarian nation. The following characterizes the Hungarian liberals' and conservatives' intellectual horizons and value systems between 1830 and 1848. These two schools represent at least two different modernization strategies, and at least two concepts of national character and two perceptions of adversaries. The ideas here discussed concern the very bases of social organization and the nature and legitimacy of the state; they reveal how Hungarians conceived of the nation; how they saw foreign countries and the European equilibrium; how they perceived themselves and their adversaries, and how they envisaged their past and future

Civilization · Dilemma · Epistemology · Fatherland · Legitimacy · Modernization theory · National identity · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Value (mathematics · European Political History Analysis · Law · Philosophy

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