A honfogoly kiszabadítása
The liberation of selfnavel-gazing nationalism

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the review is Zoltán Szabó: Diaszpóranemzet. The review gives an overview of the gradual elaboration of the rich (and innovative) conceptualisation of 'nationalism' and 'patriotism' in Zoltan Szabo's ouevre, and presents the author's liberal standing against the personal historical-political experiences that he has gathered by living through the 1956 revolution and the decades of Kadarism in exile. In its second part, the discussion focuses on the present-day implications of Szabo's unique approach for one of the most burning problems of post-1989 Hungary, and examines also the moral and political dilemmas of (re)interpreting an unfinished ouevre by the interested, though 'biased' succeeding generations.

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