Leksykon idei wędrownych na słowiańskich Bałkanach, XVIII-XXI wiek
A lexicon of migrating ideas in the Slavic Balkans, 18th-21st centuries

Volume 1. Enlightenment, religion, nationalism

Contributor(s): Grażyna Szwat-Gyłybowa (Editor), Dorota Gil (Editor), Lech Miodyński (Editor)
Subject(s): History, Philosophy, Social Sciences, History of Philosophy, Sociology, History of ideas, Globalization
Published by: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Balkans; history of ideas; intellectual history; southern Slavdom; transfer; adaptation; globalization; modernization
Summary/Abstract: The first volume of the extensive (ten-volume) monograph by Polish Slavic studies scholars (with contributions from scholars from a number of foreign research centres), made possible by an NCN OPUS grant (2014/13/B/HS2/01057). In terms of form, the monograph is a lexicon, the main body of which consists of entries-articles on the history of 27 selected ideas that anticipated and shaped the processes of modernization in the region: agrarianism , anarchism, evolution, humanism, history, capitalism, clericalization , confessions, conservatism, education, culture, liberalism, nation, modernity, homeland, schooling, enlightenment, politics, progress, rationalism, reformation, religion, revolution, secularization , socialism, tradition, and universalism. Their semantics, changeable as it was in response to local conditions, was investigated separately for each of the seven current states of the southern Slavdom: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia. Volume 1 presents the three ideas - enlightenment, religion and rationalism - that are at the foundations of the European discourses of modernization and anti-modernization. The book contains many synthetically expressed original and source-based insights of the scholars on the southern Slavic cultures’ struggles with modernity.

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