The Social Democrats of Scholarship: Austrian Imperial Peripheries and the Making of a Progressive Science of Nationality, 1885-1903
To what extent and in what ways did the intellectual climate of Austria's often ethnolinguistically heterogeneous borderlands contribute to the formation, institutionalization and diffusion of emerging social scientific discourses during the final decades of the 19th century? Investigating the...
| Published in: | Religions |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI
[2015]
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Religions
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| Further subjects: | B
Kaindl
B Austria B Jews B Krauss B peripheries B Empire B Socialism B Folklore |
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| Summary: | To what extent and in what ways did the intellectual climate of Austria's often ethnolinguistically heterogeneous borderlands contribute to the formation, institutionalization and diffusion of emerging social scientific discourses during the final decades of the 19th century? Investigating the intellectual exchange between two early proponents of folklore studies (Volkskunde)the Slavonian-German-Jewish Friedrich Salomon Krauss (1859-1938) and Bukovinian-German Raimund Friedrich Kaindl (1866-1930)this paper argues that imperial peripheries, while traditionally overlooked as sites of knowledge production, in fact played a pivotal role in the development of an important brand of progressive social scientific research, one defined by a critical stance toward the prevailing historicist paradigms of the time. These self-described social democrats of scholarship collaborated, both formally and informally, on a number of related theoretical projects aimed at disrupting the exclusionary narratives of the academic establishment and re-focusing scholarly attention on the sociological, rather than historical, character of ethnonational difference. In this way, the nationalities question spurred, both in the center and at the margins of the monarchy, the development of new sciences of nationality intended to sustain Austria's imperial structure. |
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| ISSN: | 2077-1444 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3390/rel6041232 |