Ukraine in the Narratives of German Intellectual History from the End of the XVIIIth to the Middle of the XIXth Century: a Comparative Analysis of the Views of Two Generations
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The article identifies two generations of German intellectuals who, from the end of the XVIIIth to the middle of the XIXth century created various ideas and visions of Ukraine and Ukrainians. The author identified the positions and verified the statements of the selected authors, in particular of A.-V. Hupel, J.-Ch. von Engel, A.-L. von Haxthausen, J.-G. Kohl, A. Mauritsius, F.-M. von Bodenstedt, through a comparative analysis of their views on the phenomenon of Ukraine at two distinct periods of history and the traced evolution of these views. These are German scholars who started the discourse on Ukraine at the end of the XVIIIth century (first generation), and researchers and travelers from Germany, who revived the discourse about Ukraine in the 1840s-1860s (second generation). The author finds out how the second discourse in the vision of the phenomenon of Ukraine differed from the first, and that it brought something new to the interpretation of Ukrainian problems. Various currents that existed among German intellectuals of both the first and the second discourse in the study of Ukraine are singled out. In the framework of reconstruction of the image of Ukraine shaped by leading German intellectuals during the period in question, the author answers to the questions of whether German researchers considered Ukrainian issues separately from Russian and Polish issues or, on the contrary, jointly, and whether there was a vision of Ukrainians as a separate nation with its right to its own statehood in German intellectual history.
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