Radikalkonservatisme og dansk imperialisme:Riget bygget på ny fra grunden
The article explores the concept of empire or rige in the context of a small nation-state with no immediate claim to imperial greatness and with a rooted self-understanding as anything but an empire. It does this by exploring the concept of empire in the far right movement The Young Denmark on the b...
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ftuniaarhuspubl:oai:pure.atira.dk:publications/9458cf03-f180-476f-8217-f0c6fddc6649 2023-05-15T16:32:10+02:00 Radikalkonservatisme og dansk imperialisme:Riget bygget på ny fra grunden Radical conservatism and Danish imperialism:The Empire Built Anew from Scratch Skov, Christian Egander 2013-07 https://pure.au.dk/portal/da/publications/radical-conservatism-and-danish-imperialism(9458cf03-f180-476f-8217-f0c6fddc6649).html https://doi.org/10.3167/choc.2013.080104 http://berghahn.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/berghahn/coco/2013/00000008/00000001/art00004 eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Skov , C E 2013 , ' Radical conservatism and Danish imperialism : The Empire Built Anew from Scratch ' , Contributions to the History of Concepts , vol. 8 , no. 1 , pp. 67-88 . https://doi.org/10.3167/choc.2013.080104 konservatisme radikalkonservatisme nykonservatisme imperialisme Grønland Island Begrebshistorie article 2013 ftuniaarhuspubl https://doi.org/10.3167/choc.2013.080104 2020-07-18T21:24:02Z The article explores the concept of empire or rige in the context of a small nation-state with no immediate claim to imperial greatness and with a rooted self-understanding as anything but an empire. It does this by exploring the concept of empire in the far right movement The Young Denmark on the basis of a close reading of their imperialist program in the pamphlet Danmark Udslettes! from 1918. Rige had been a vague term for the larger Danish polity that originated in a pre-national conceptualization of the polity as a realm. The article suggests that rige-as-realm was translated by the radical right into a concept of empire. In the process it dramatically changed its emphasis, reorienting itself towards a "horizon of expectation." It became a politically loaded battle concept which then entailed a critique against the dominant liberal conceptualization of the polity and nation. Rige came to signify the ambition of being a great power, the spiritual elevation of the nation through the transcendence of the decaying liberal modernity. The program addressed the tension between a conservative political attitude and modernity and thus signified a kind of reactionary modernism, which rejected liberal values, while at the same time celebrating technology, industrialization and the process of modernization. Article in Journal/Newspaper Grønland Aarhus University: Research Grunden ENVELOPE(-56.967,-56.967,-63.400,-63.400) Contributions to the History of Concepts 8 1 67 88 |
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The article explores the concept of empire or rige in the context of a small nation-state with no immediate claim to imperial greatness and with a rooted self-understanding as anything but an empire. It does this by exploring the concept of empire in the far right movement The Young Denmark on the basis of a close reading of their imperialist program in the pamphlet Danmark Udslettes! from 1918. Rige had been a vague term for the larger Danish polity that originated in a pre-national conceptualization of the polity as a realm. The article suggests that rige-as-realm was translated by the radical right into a concept of empire. In the process it dramatically changed its emphasis, reorienting itself towards a "horizon of expectation." It became a politically loaded battle concept which then entailed a critique against the dominant liberal conceptualization of the polity and nation. Rige came to signify the ambition of being a great power, the spiritual elevation of the nation through the transcendence of the decaying liberal modernity. The program addressed the tension between a conservative political attitude and modernity and thus signified a kind of reactionary modernism, which rejected liberal values, while at the same time celebrating technology, industrialization and the process of modernization. |
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