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The collection assembles, defines, and examines texts which can be labeled as "liminal texts". These texts deny a classification into traditional systems, genres, and forms valid around 1880 and continuing into the first decades of the 20th century where broadly effective innovations in the sciences, the arts, in politics and society took place in France, Austria and Germany. The anthology not only provides a new corpus and therewith innovative insights into the long turn of the century but also an experimental field for current theoretical and methodological questions.

The collection assembles, defines, and examines texts which can be labeled as "liminal texts". These texts deny a classification into traditional systems, genres, and forms valid around 1880 and continuing into the first decades of the 20th century where broadly effective innovations in the sciences, the arts, in politics and society took place in France, Austria and Germany. The anthology not only provides a new corpus and therewith innovative insights into the long turn of the century but also an experimental field for current theoretical and methodological questions.

Includes "Unsere Militärverwaltung in Polen" by Hugo von Hofmannsthal (p. 90-97); also contributions by Alfred Polgar and Stefan Zweig. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Original illustrated cream paper boards.

The last volume of the Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe 1770–1945 series presents 46 texts under the heading of "antimodernism". In a dynamic relationship with modernism, from the 1880s to the 1940s, and especially during the interwar period, the antimodernist political discourse in the region offered complex ideological constructions of national identification. These texts rejected the linear vision of progress and instead offered alternative models of temporality, such as the cyclical one as well as various narratives of decline. This shift was closely connected to the rejection of liberal democratic institutionalism, and the preference for organicist models of social existence, emphasizing the role of the elites (and charismatic leaders) shaping the whole body politic. Along these lines, antimodernist authors also formulated alternative visions of symbolic geography: rejecting the symbolic hierarchies that focused on the normativity of Western European models, they stressed the cultural and political autarchy of their own national community, which in some cases was also coupled with the reevaluation of the Orient. At the same time, this antimodernist turn should not be confused with rightwing radicalism—in fact, the dialogue with the modernist tradition was often very subtle and the anthology also contains texts which offered a criticism of 'modern' totalitarianism in an antimodernist key