The Symbolic Square
It is evident that there is a Kossuth Square, because there is a Parliament. The Parliament not only created the square but, by its dimensions and mass, gave it a structure.
The German-Austrian Situation and Horizon
The intellectual-political culture of the Monarchy to some extent mirrored the general European trends and adapted to them but it also showed considerable individuality. The individuality was not limited to the particular individual talents of those who were responsible for the intellectual life of the country. It had structural characteristics which defined the intellectual and day-to-day milieu and atmosphere.
Nationalist illusionism
In my opinion nationalism is a nation-religion. Nation-religion is an outgrowth of the Judeo-Christian culture. It is a secular religion.[1] It shows the same characteristics wherever it developed. It assumes…
Holocaust Representations – Facts and Issues
Hungary has so far created three permanent exhibitions devoted to the genocide that affected also the Jews of Hungary: one in the territory of Auschwitz-Birkenau (2004), another one in Hódmezővásárhely (2004), and a third one in the Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest (2006). A fourth exhibition entitled House of Fates, focusing on the children’s Holocaust, is in preparation.
A National Fable: The Case of the House of Árpád
One of most significant intellectual phenomena in European history starting from the eighteenth century is the way evolving national consciousnesses function and the presence of nationalism that developed thereof. In…
The National Dog
The national sentiment and thought that emerged in the eighteenth century and became pervasive by the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have occasionally manifested themselves in very strange forms. They created…
A story of heroic hungarian deaths
…whoever is ready for heroic death
Will be triumphant.
(Sándor Petőfi, “Lost Battles, Ignominious Flights”)
The day of national unity
“Hungarian! You are an orphaned Abandoned mortal. Prostrate among all the nations, Hungarian, have faith and the future is yours.”
(Mrs. Elemér Papp-Váry, Hungarian Credo, 1921)
“The millennial series of disasters is over.”
(István Örkény: Nézzünk bizakodva a jövőben 1967)
(Let us look confidently to the future)