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Abstract

The paper discusses the Slovak national ideology, initiated and outlined by Ľudovít Štúr and his addherents. It focusses on the basic characteristics of their thinking and on their further development determined by external conditions. Attention is paid to the terminology of national thinking as well as to its development from defending the nation as something given, as an ethnic community to its critical reflection and finally to a project of a new reality - an established and a fully developed nation. The author sees the novelty of Štúr’s addherents’ conception of nation in its idea of nation as a selfconscious and selfwilling community. This conception drew upon the antihungarian works of the thirties and the fourties of the 19th cenrury, following their argumentation and rearticulating it in accordance with its new intentions.