Czechoslovakism in the First Half of the Czechoslovak Republic. State-Building Concept or Hackneyed Old Phrase?

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003205234-6" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003205234-6</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003205234-6" target="_blank" >10.4324/9781003205234-6</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Czechoslovakism in the First Half of the Czechoslovak Republic. State-Building Concept or Hackneyed Old Phrase?

Original language description

This chapter turns to one of the central concerns of the field, i.e. the transmutation of the primarily cultural idea of Czechoslovak reciprocity into a state-building political idea. The analysis does not replicate the traditional disputes surrounding constitutional documents and statistical praxis. It instead studies how the newly launched „Czechoslovak sciences” dealt with public and state requests for scientific justifications of Czechoslovakism to help fortify the national consciousness. Using concrete examples from the social sciences, including legal studies, historiography, geography, linguistics, ethnography and literary studies—represented in this text by well-known exponents of Czechoslovakism, such as Viktor Dvorský, Václav Chaloupecký, Albert Pražák, František Trávníček or Emanuel Chalupný—the chapter attempts to determine to what extent their various efforts to scientifically legitimize Czechoslovakism were either semantically or argumentatively dependent on older, pre-war polemics and stereotypes, or to what extent new argumentative strategies emerged with the creation of the common state. Despite the undeniable thriving of Czech and Slovak social sciences, the overwhelming majority of approaches merely replicated antecedent concepts, as was evident in official „apologetic” publications from the period when Nazism was already an ever-growing threat. Ultimately, when confronted with social reality, these scientific pursuits of legitimacy failed. Over the course of the 1920s, Czechoslovakism became nothing more than a hackneyed old phrase, rolled out for official state festivities but nowhere to be found in the lived experiences of Czechs or Slovaks.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA19-03474S" target="_blank" >GA19-03474S: Evolutionalism, Nationalism and Racism in Czech and Slovak Science (1882-1948). A Dialogue between Social Science and Biology</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Czechoslovakism

ISBN

978-1-032-07072-8

Number of pages of the result

37

Pages from-to

172-208

Number of pages of the book

490

Publisher name

Routledge

Place of publication

Abingdon

UT code for WoS chapter

000842915700007