Reactionary and progressive rhetoric in post-communist transformation: A note on translating Hirschman's ideas into a different context
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angličtina
Original language name
Reactionary and progressive rhetoric in post-communist transformation: A note on translating Hirschman's ideas into a different context
Original language description
This chapter aims to show the lines along which Albert O. Hirschman's analysis of reactionary and progressive political rhetoric, elaborated in his book "The Rhetoric of Reaction", can be extended to post-communist transformations in Central and Eastern Europe. The post-communist transformation is a rather unfriendly empirical field for the study of policy-related rhetorical figures along Hirschmanian lines as one of the characteristics of the post-communist discourse is the destabilization and ambivalence of the concepts "reactionary" and "progressive". Another difficulty made explicit in this chapter is that the history of the establishment and collapse of communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe does not chime well with the progressivist narrative of ever-expanding forms of citizenship which is the underlying historical rationale for Hirschman's analysis. Despite these reservations, it is concluded that the application of the Hirschmanian typology of political rhetorics to communist and post-communist political discourse not only provides a proof of its extraordinary productivity, but it also generates new insights and modifications to the original scheme. This chapter previously appeared in a collection of conference papers, now it appears for the first time in an edited book. It has been included in a book that contains a selection of chapters from three international Albert Hirschman conferences.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Albert Hirschman: Legacy and Debates
ISBN
978-1-63667-666-1
Number of pages of the result
9
Pages from-to
211-219
Number of pages of the book
224
Publisher name
Peter Lang
Place of publication
New York
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