A01=Domonkos Sik
Author_Domonkos Sik
Category=JHB
collective memory
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- ISBN 9783631674178
- Weight: 370g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 23 May 2016
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Paperback
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Most theories of radicalization focus on the birth of antidemocratic ideas, semantics, behavior patterns and organizations. However, such focus is one-sided: radicalization is as much about the forgetting of historical lessons and the weakening of a democratic consensus, as the spreading of populist ideas. A case study of public and private processes of memory transmission in Hungary reveals how the ambiguous relation to modernization affects political formation: the failures provoke populist reactions, while the successes result in political indifference. The combination of these two political cultures creates a dangerous compound including both the opportunity for the birth of antidemocratic semantics and their ignorance. The author analyzes the potential of such «incubation of radicalism» on a European survey.
Domonkos Sik is sociologist and philosopher, working as an assistant professor at the University Eötvös Loránd in Budapest. His research focuses on critical theories of modernization and political formation in post-transition countries.
