Pavel Horák

Since the mid nineteenth-century, nationalism and occultism emerged and spread throughout Europe. On the one hand, occultism embodied a peculiar transitional network, while, on the other hand, it was also utilized for cementing nationalist agendas. This project will address so far little studied tensions between national and transnational agendas, wherein occultism featured as a peculiar interface, focusing on mutual exchange between the Czech lands and Austria.