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Imagining an Austrian Nation - Joseph Samuel Bloch and the Search for a Supraethnic Austrian Identity, 1846 - 1918, Hardback Book

Imagining an Austrian Nation - Joseph Samuel Bloch and the Search for a Supraethnic Austrian Identity, 1846 - 1918 Hardback

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This book examines attempts to cultivate an Austrian identity based on a civic rather than an ethnic conception of a national community.

It focuses on the ideas of Joseph Samuel Bloch, an Austrian-Jewish writer and politician who sought to cultivate a civic identity to unify the nationalities of multiethnic Austria.

Bloch called for a hyphenated Austrian consciousness that respected the desire to protect pre-existing ethnic, cultural, religious, and linguistic bonds while building transethnic ties based on citizenship.

This study also analyzes the ideas of his mentor, Adolf Fischhof, another Austrian-Jewish reform-minded politician.

Finally, it compares Bloch's ideas to those of other Austrian reformers of various ethnic and political backgrounds in order to discover how they conceived of a supraethnic Austrian consciousness. "Imagining an Austrian Nation" explores the meaning of nationalism and identity in a pluralistic society, issues that confound humanity as much in the twenty-first century as they did in the nineteenth.

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