Whose love of which country? : composite states, national histories and patriotic discourses in early modern East Central Europe

0342280 - FLÚ 2011 RIV NL eng M - Monography Chapter
Storchová, Lucie
Nation, patria and the aesthetics of existence: Late humanist national discourse and its rewriting by the modern Czech nationalist movement.
Whose love of which country? : composite states, national histories and patriotic discourses in early modern East Central Europe. Leiden: Brill, 2010 - (Trencsényi, B.; Zászkaliczky, M.), s. 225-254. Studies in the history of political thought, 3. ISBN 978-90-04-18262-2
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z90090514
Keywords : discourses of nation * early modern * Bohemia
Subject RIV: AA - Philosophy ; Religion

The chapter is concerned with the role played by national discourses in the late humanist "aesthetics of the self". After mentioning the late Foucauldian conceptual framework, the author analyzes interconnections of a national imagery produced by Daniel Adam of Veleslavín (died 1599) and his collaboratuers to particular discourses of subjectivity and ethical preoccupation. This "aesthetics of existence" implied an interpretation of the social whole and the role played by each individual in the set of imagined communities, such as patria or „nation“, and it was performed with mostly corporeal or civic metaphors. In the colcuding part the author points out to changes and shifts in significance, after its rewriting by the modern Czech national movement since the 1780s.
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