Источно од модернистичког раја. Српски „увезени“ антимодернизам у делима Чујте Срби! Арчибалда Рајса и Црногорски човјек Герхарда Геземана
East of Modernist Eden Serbia’s “Imported” Antimodernism in the Works Čujte Srbi! by Archibald Reiss and Crnogorski čovjek by Gerhard Gesemann

Summary/Abstract: The article undertakes the contextual and theoretical analysis of “reactionary modernist” features present in the works by two German scientists who moved to Serbia in the wake of the First World War: Čujte Srbi (1928) by Archibald Reiss and Crnogorski čovjek (1934) by Gerhard Gesemann. Both authors juxtaposed Serbo-Montenegrin patriarchal communitarianism and warrior mentality with the adoption of Western-oriented individualism and the modernization-imbued progressive view of history. The peculiarity of these two texts lies in the secularist evaluation of Serbian religiosity, conservative stance towards gender relations and the reexamination of the national identity construction and Serbo-Montenegrin state-building projects. As antimodernist writings, they reinvented Balkan traditions as an alternative source of regeneration for the decadent interwar political and social system (with the significant difference that Reiss believed in the rectification of modernist mistakes, whereas Gesemann explicitly perceived the social system he studied as ancient).

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