The article gives an account of Yugoslav unitarianism, understood to be one of the historical realisations of the long-term belief that the genetic and linguistic relatedness of (South)Slavic ethnicities must be fulfilled in a political and economic union. The conclusion is that proponents of Yugoslav unitarianism are (somewhat surprisingly) heirs to the "French" Enlightenment, but with an important caveat: their thinking is fundamentally defined by the mental structure of "catching up".
|
