Naslov
Political Patriotism in the Late Habsburg Empire: The case of Izidor Kršnjavi

Autori
Vranić, Igor

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, ostalo

Skup
Identities, Categories of Identification, and Identifications between the Danube, the Alps, and the Adriatic

Mjesto i datum
Ljubljana, Slovenija, 20.04.2017. - 21.04.2017

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Izidor Kršnjavi ; Habsburg Monarchy ; Croatia ; 19th century ; nation-building

Sažetak
After the failed process of unification and Germanization under Joseph II, numerous public workers (politicians, scholars, bureaucrats) started to research and deal with various cultural, linguistic and religious groups living inside the Habsburg Monarchy. In the nineteenth century, governing a society as heterogeneous as the Habsburg Monarchy became more challenging due to the raising calls and actions for political autonomy or independence. One of the means to overcome such differences was the politics of “unity in diversity” from Viennese liberal circles, which also found many followers throughout the Monarchy, including first professional art historian in Croatia and later Minister of Religious Affairs and Education Izidor Kršnjavi (1845-1927). According to such opinion, the Habsburg Monarchy was seen as the necessary frame, binding people together and allowing everyone to prosper. The main idea behind such a worldview of the liberal Viennese circles of the 1850s and 1860s, including Kršnjavi, was that it was possible to shape public opinion through the education of the wider masses. Although these teachings were adopted by some of the intellectuals, their implementation among the population failed. The main idea behind such project was to amortize rural nationalism by education of the wider masses. Instead, the wider masses were nationalized by various public workers with whom they had direct everyday contact. Having been educated in the liberal circles in Vienna, Kršnjavi’s positive stances towards the King and the Monarchy were likely formed as a result. Since Kršnjavi was both monarchist/imperialist and inclusive Croatian national activist, he cannot be situated in the binary opposition usually referred to as “exclusive nationalist-cosmopolitan imperialist.” The main idea behind such complex identity was that the role of the Habsburg Monarchy and their elite is to develop political identity without national characteristics. Such identity would enable people to identify with the supranational empire, as well as with their local community.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Povijest, Povijest umjetnosti

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