![]() ![]() ![]() I have two books in mind for future summaries that make similar arguments: Benedict Arnold's Imagined Communities, which emphasizes the role of the printing press and modern communications across multinational empires and, unusually, places the origins of nationalism in colonial South America, and Nations and Nationalism since 1788 by Eric Hobsbawn, which emphasizes notions of a national economy, national languages, mass instruction and liberal ideas of national autonomy. Gellner's work is one of many that argue that nationalism must be understood as a product of modernity. Written in 1983, it has been central to the subject. Here is the book, "Nations and Nationalism" by Ernest Gellner.Īfter Hazony's new and fairly concrete defence of nationalism, I present to you Ernest Gellner's influential but highly theoretical study of nationalism. This is the second in a series of posts on nationalism. ![]()
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