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Europa-Konzepte im postimperialen Kontext der späten Kriegszeit und der frühen Zwischenkriegszeit
| Title in English | Concepts of Europe in the post-imperial context of the late war period and the early interwar period |
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | This essay attempts a comparative interpretation of three European pro- jects of the interwar period, namely Thomas G. Masaryk’s New Europe (1918), Karl Anton Rohan’s ‘Kulturbund’ (1922) and his journal European Review (1925–1944), and, as a contrasting foil to those projects, the panEuropean endeavours of Richard von Coudenhove Kalergi. In contrast to the previous, analytically insufficient distinction between democratic and non-democratic, which would merely contrast these projects, this essay chooses a post-imperial perspective that allows for a better grasp of the degrees of coincidence and difference, as well as for a description of continuity and discontinuity with respect to imperial times and techniques. It aims both to refine the interpretation of Masaryk’s aspirations for a new Europe after 1918 and to point out the various transformations of imperial and postimperial semantics in the chosen European concepts, especially in the interwar period. |
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