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Abstract
The paper focuses on the examination of political discussion carried out in the journal,Prudy" in the decades preceding and following the World war 1. The aim of the examination is to indicate the fundamental topic of the discussion. According to the author it was the problematic of conservatism, which had been discussed in the referential frame of the Slovak nationalism as a part of the cultural conflict, taking place between various groups of the national elite. The Slovak political thinking remained for a long time marked by a cultural,schism" between modernism and traditionalism. The discussion in the journal,Prfidy" is therefore an important source for those, who are interested in the manners and conceptions of Slovak political modernism.
It was the New School, which began systematically to pursue the problem of the vertical and horizontal forms of national integration. The views of the authors contributing to the newspaper Slovenské noviny, based on the idea of civic equality, were an alternative to the pathetic elitism of the patriots of Štúrian kind. Political realism of the New School embodied national claims articulated in a politically more inclusive form, whose background was a historical vision of expanding the sphere of civic life. Their conception thus can be seen as a continuation of philosophical-political tradition of liberalism and empiricism.
The idea of Slavic solidarity served in the 19th century often as a means for reaching the cultural equality of particular Slavic nations. However, the representatives of the "New School" expanded its primarily cultural legacy (J. Kollár) also on the political collaboration of the Slavs. Their objective was a gradual national and civic emancipation within the given frontiers of Austria-Hungary. Its new meaning was the Hungarian patriotism as a uniting civic basis for national and cultural diversity. By including the anew articulated idea of Slavic solidarity into their liberal political program they created favourable conditions for the collaboration of Slavic nations on a civic basis. This program was in clear opposition to the idea of the political panslavism proclaimed by Russia.