TY - BOOK AU - Blaive,Muriel AU - Blokker,Paul AU - Bozóki,András AU - Buzalka,Juraj AU - Dujisin,Zoltán AU - Egry,Gábor AU - Gagyi,Ágnes AU - Gdula,Maciej AU - Holubec,Stanislav AU - Hudek,Adam AU - Kopeček,Michal AU - Laczó,Ferenc AU - Lóránd,Zsófia AU - Mark,James AU - Matyja,Rafał AU - Pârvu,Camil Alexandru AU - Roubal,Petr AU - Saunders,Anna AU - Szűcs,Zoltán Gábor AU - Tyszka,Stanisław AU - Wcislik,Piotr AU - Wciślik,Piotr AU - Znoj,Milan AU - Đurašković,Stevo TI - Thinking through Transition: Liberal Democracy, Authoritarian Pasts, and Intellectual History in East Central Europe After 1989 SN - 9789633861103 U1 - 320.943 23 PY - 2022///] CY - Budapest, New York : PB - Central European University Press, KW - Political science KW - Europe, Central KW - History KW - Europe, Eastern KW - Post-communism KW - Social change KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European KW - bisacsh KW - 21st century, Conservatism, Croatia, Czechia, Feminism, History, Hungary, Intellectual life, Late 20th century, Liberalism, Memory politics, Poland, Political philosophy, Political studies, Populism, Post-communism, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Social change, Transition N1 - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Introduction: Towards an Intellectual History of Post-Socialism --; Liberalism: Dissident Illusions and Disillusions --; Five Faces of Post-Dissident Hungarian Liberalism: A Study in Agendas, Concepts, and Ambiguities --; “Totalitarianism” and the Limits of Polish Dissident Political Thought: Late Socialism and After --; Václav Havel, His Idea of Civil Society, and the Czech Liberal Tradition --; The (Re-)Emergence of Constitutionalism in East Central Europe --; Conservativism: A Counter-Revolution? --; Anti-Communism of the Future: Czech Post-Dissident Neoconservatives in Post-Communist Transformation --; Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience: Polish Conservatism 1979–2011 --; The Abortion of a “Conservative” Constitution-Making: A Discourse Analysis of the 1994–1998 Failed Hungarian Constitution-making Enterprise --; Populism: Endemic Pasts and Global Effects --; Syndrome or Symptom: Populism and Democratic Malaise in Post-Communist Romania --; The Illusion of Inclusion: Configurations of Populism in Hungary --; The Political Lives of Dead Populists in Post-socialist Slovakia --; The Left: Between Communist Legacy and Neoliberal Challenge --; Non-Post-Communist Left in Hungary after 1989: Diverging Paths of Leftist Criticism, Civil Activism, and Radicalizing Constituency --; The Architecture of Revival: Left-wing Ideas and Politics in Poland after 2002 --; The Formation of the Czech Post-Communist Intellectual Left: Twenty Years of Seeking an Identity --; Feminist Criticism of the “New Democracies” in Serbia and Croatia in the First Half of the 1990s --; Politics of History: Nations, Wars, Revolutions --; 1989 After 1989: Remembering the End of Communism in East-Central Europe --; A Fate for a Nation: Concepts of History and the Nation in Hungarian Politics, 1989–2010 --; From “Husakism” to “Mečiarism”: The National Identity-Building Discourse of the Slovak Left-wing Intellectuals in 1990s Slovakia --; Post-Communist Europe: On the Path to a Regional Regime of Remembrance? --; List of Contributors --; Index; restricted access N2 - Thinking through Transition is the first concentrated effort to explore the most recent chapter of East Central European past from the perspective of intellectual history. Post-communism can be understood as a period of scarcity and preponderance of ideas, the dramatic eclipsing of the dissident legacy (as well as the older political traditions), and the rise of technocratic and post-political governance.  This book, grounded in empirical research sensitive to local contexts, proposes instead a history of adaptations, entanglements, and unintended consequences. In order to enable and invite comparison, the volume is structured around major domains of political thought, some of them generic (liberalism, conservatism, the Left), others (populism and politics of history) deemed typical for post-socialism. However, as shown by the authors, the generic often turns out to be heavily dependent on its immediate setting, and the typical resonates with processes that are anything but vernacular UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789633861103 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789633861103 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789633861103/original ER -