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| Köllő István - Zsolt |
| Presuppositions Used in the Study of Nationalisms |
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This paper briefly reflects on three important presuppositions used generally in the study of nationalism: the idea of the modern individual, the political tradition(s) of liberalism and the modern state. The main problem is that these presuppositions are frequently used in different papers, studies and monographs without the necessary critical spirit, this resulting in the irrelevance of these writings and in their failure to achieve the proposed objectives. The goal of the present text is to point out how problematic these presuppositions are and what rational options a sound methodical criticism has. The paper emphasizes that the majority of the normative works and papers studying nationalism are only semi-relevant or, in other cases, useless, while the majority of the descriptive and empirical works may help in the clarification of the studied problem. | |
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