Book Talk with Balázs Trencsényi: Intellectuals and the Crisis of Politics in the Interwar Period and Beyond: A Transnational History
The MEMPOP Team cordially invites you to the upcoming book talk “Intellectuals and the Crisis of Politics in the Interwar Period and Beyond: A Transnational History” by Balázs Trencsényi (Central European University), introducing Trencsényi’s eponymous book recently published by Oxford University Press.
Discussant: Diána Vonnák
Details of the Event:
- Date: Tuesday, March 11, 2025
- Time: 15:00 – 17:00 CET
- Location: CEFRES Library, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
- Or join online via Zoom – link HERE (Meeting ID: 892 1280 1728; Password: 605775)
Intellectuals and the Crisis of Politics in the Interwar Period and Beyond maps the range of meanings the term ‘crisis’ has borne and the roles it has performed across disciplines and countries, de-centering the dominant narrative that takes Western European positions and developments as normative. It especially focuses on the historical roots of two key contemporary contesters of liberal democracy: neoliberalism and populism and presents an innovative analysis of the roots of contemporary illiberalism in Europe. Bringing these ideas into the present day, Balázs Trencsényi offers ideas on how a reflective and self-critical liberal democratic political position could be defined and defended in our current predicament, which is increasingly compared to the interwar period and is often described as a “polycrisis”.
About the Speaker:
Balázs Trencsényi is a professor at the Department of Historical Studies, CEU.
The event is co-hosted by the French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences (CEFRES, MEAE-CNRS).
You can download the poster in PDF here.