Nationalism
by Gellner, Ernest.
Published by : New York University Press, (Washington Square, N.Y. :) Physical details: x, 114 p. ; 21 cm. ISBN:0814731139. Year: 1997
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Culture and power -- 2. Culture and organisation, states and nationalism -- 3. A short history of mankind -- 4. The industrial and industrialising world -- 5. The plurality of melting-pots -- 6. Stages of transition -- 7. The marriage of state and culture -- 8. The murderous virulence of nationalism -- 9. The three stages of morality -- 10. Roots against reason -- 11. Roots and man -- 12. Faith and culture -- 13. Muslim fundamentalism and Arab nationalism -- 14. Marxism and Islam -- 15. Do nations have navels? -- 16. Practical implications.
In this book, completed just before his death, Ernest Gellner explores the phenomenon of nationalism, tracing its emergence and roots in the modern industrialized nation-state, its links with romanticism and its creation of national myths.
He investigates its various manifestations and reveals how in long established states, such as France, it has been relatively benign, while in Eastern Europe in particular - where nationalist feeling preceded the emergence of modern states - its influence has been far more problematic, and at times disastrous.
Finally, the book explores the prospects for minimizing the influence of nationalist feeling and cautiously anticipates the possibility of its decline in this decade of continuing atrocities and "ethnic cleansing".
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