An Analysis of Ernest Gellner's Nations and Nationalism
Autor Dale Stahlen Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 iul 2017
A fine place to start any such exploration is with Ernest Gellner's seminal Nations and Nationalism, a ground-breaking study that was the first to flesh out the counter-intuitive - but enormously influential - thesis that modern nationalism has little if anything in common with old-fashioned patriotism or loyalty to one's homeland. Gellner's intensely creative thesis is that the nationalism we know today is actually the product of the 19th-century industrial revolution, which radically reshaped ancient communities, encouraging emigration to cities at the same time as it improved literacy rates and introduced mass education. Gellner connected these three elements in an entirely new way, contrasting developments to the structures of pre-industrial agrarian economies to show why the new nationalism could not have been born in such communities. He was also successful in generating a typology of nationalisms in an attempt to explain why some forms flourished while others fizzled out. His remarkable ability to produce novel explanations for existing evidence marks out Nations and Nationalism as one of the most radical, stimulating - and enduringly influential - works of its day.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781912127306
ISBN-10: 191212730X
Pagini: 108
Dimensiuni: 141 x 200 x 7 mm
Greutate: 0.13 kg
ISBN-10: 191212730X
Pagini: 108
Dimensiuni: 141 x 200 x 7 mm
Greutate: 0.13 kg
Descriere
Ernest Gellner - a Jew who escaped from Czechoslovakia in 1939 after Hitler invaded - knew first-hand the catastrophic effects of excessive nationalism, and he was determined to understand the phenomenon that had shaped so much of 20th century history.