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Nationalism as Ideology: Was Paul Ritter Vitezović a National Thinker or an Ideologist?

Martina Topić ; Odsjek za hrvatsku politiku Fakulteta političkih znanosti, Zagreb, Hrvatska


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str. 107-137

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The article discusses the concepts of ideology and nationalism within the context of Paul Ritter Vitezović’s late seventeenth-century work Croatia rediviva. To be specific, ideology is a phenomenon that, because it almost always has more or less negative connotations, has provoked controversies since the eighteenth century, when the term was employed for the first time, and it is frequently considered as a synonym for distorted consciousness and irrational attempts at achieving prosperity on the part of a certain particular group. On the other hand, the term nationalism provokes controversies because as a phenomenon it has until now mostly ended in crimes, but also because different authors have considered it as a doctrine appearing as a sequel of some ideology and some as an ideology per se.
Paul Ritter Vitezović is a national figure who undoubtedly greatly contributed to the development of Croatian historiography and sociology, but the controversy starts when his work is analysed, leading to the question whether he may be considered as a national ideologist or just as a national thinker. The article, thus, analyses ideology and nationalism as phenomena, and then links this discussion to the aforementioned questions connected with Vitezović’s work. The historical circumstances of Vitezović’s life are discussed, as well as his work Croatia rediviva within the context of the definition of ideology: that is, the article asks whether his work is ideological per se or whether it is a matter of nationally oriented thinking, which, perhaps, traced the path for ideology.
The article comes to the conclusion that Vitezović may be considered as an ideologist, and that in several places in his work, taking into account the time when he lived, we may consider him as a precursor of modern ideology, as we know today; however, we cannot consider him as an ideologist in the negative sense of that word.

Ključne riječi

ideology; nationalism; Paul Ritter Vitezović; Croatia rediviva; the Early Modern Age

Hrčak ID:

62617

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https://hrcak.srce.hr/62617

Datum izdavanja:

29.12.2010.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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