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Particularism is a generally pejorative, German -language slogan for a perceived to be particularly pronounced federal structure, particularly in terms of territorialization and federalism in Germany.

It was first used in 1814 by the Pan-German nationalistic " father of gymnastics " Jahn as a political slogan and spread in the German language area. In Ecce Homo, The Gay Science, Twilight of the Idols and Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Nietzsche turned to the word on the overall European situation of his time. The word " particularism " was also applied to the front of the Risorgimento Italy. The work A kelet - Európai kisállamok nyomorúsága by István Bibó about the situation in Eastern Europe from 1946 appeared in 1992 in a German translation under the title " The plight of Eastern European particularism ".