Book Review: Slavdom in Europe, Europe in Slavdom. A Vision of the Modernisation of Slavs by Štefan Laune
Book Review: Slavdom in Europe, Europe in Slavdom. A Vision of the Modernisation of Slavs by Štefan Laune

Summary/Abstract: The present publication reopens the debate about the early 19th Century Slovak intellectual elite’s political thought, which sought to comprehend Herder’s and Hegel’s concepts, as well as the ideas of other leading European intellectuals of that period. They were at the same time engaged in the search for the perspectives for the future of the Slovak nation and its place in Hungary, Slavdom and Europe. Published in English, the present book delves into the subject more deeply that the original paper. In three extensive chapters, the author sets out to outline the life of Štefan Launer and his activities within the national revival movement during the revolutionary decade of the 1840s, which saw the projects of political and social modernisation clash with those of national emancipation.

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