Questions of Identity : Czech and Slovak Ideas of Nationality and Personality Book

	Preface
1	Introduction: Questions of identity and responsibility in Vaclav Havel
	The background to Havel's writing	1
	Identity and responsibility	8
	The responsibility of being a dissident	12
	Dissident responsibility and the work ethic	15
	Truth and identity	18
	The sense of crisis	21
	Consumerism and identity	23
	Identity and the erotic	27
	The centralization of emotions	28
	Identity and history	31
	Language and identity	33
	Identity, the transcendental and religion	39
2	The myth of Slavness: Pavel Josef Safarik and Jan Kollar
	Introduction: Myth, nation, nationalism	44
	Safarik and Kollar's lives and works	46
	The Slav nation, Slav reciprocity	52
	Slovak and Slav	60
	The origins and the extent of Slavdom	65
	Practical Slavness	72
	Herder's picture of the Slavs and its impact on Safarik and Kollar	73
	The physical characteristics of the Slavs in the Safarik and Kollar myth	87
	Slavs and foreigners	90
	Obstacles to Slav reciprocity	94
	The mission of the Slav myth	96
3	The decadent self
	Stirner and Amiel and the Decadent self	103
	Some other conceptions of selfness	110
	Individualism, memory, social being	112
	Solipsism, Decadent aristocratism and Stirner	115
	The self versus nation and State	118
	The self-centredness of art and artist	125
	The fluid, Protean self	129
	The transcendent self	132
	The landscape of the self	135
	The dandy	135
	Multiple personality and autostylization	138
	The Decadent self and Freud	144
4	Conclusion: Czech self-definition through martyrs
	Introduction: Varieties of national self-definition	148
	Masaryk and the Czech 'martyr complex'	190
	St Wenceslas	196
	Jan Hus	198
	St John Nepomucene	201
	Colonel Svec	205
	Julius Fucik	207
	Jan Palach	209
	Notes	211
	Index	233