The Idea Of Nationalism: A Study In Its Origins And BackgroundTransaction Publishers, 1969 - 735 páginas In this sixtieth anniversary edition of The Idea of Nationalism, Craig Calhoun probes the work of Hans Kohn and the world that first brought prominence to this unparalleled defense of the national ideal in the modern West. At its publication, Saturday Review called it "an enduring and definitive treatise.... [Kohn] has written a book which is less a history of nationalism than it is a history of Western civilization from the standpoint of the national idea." This edition includes an extensive new introduction by Craig Calhoun, which in itself is a substantial contribution to the history of ideas. The Idea of Nationalism comprehensively analyzes the rise of nationalism, the idea's content, and its worldwide implications from the days of Hebrew and Greek antiquity to the eve of the French Revolution. As Calhoun explains, Kohn was particularly qualified to undertake this study. He grew up in Prague, the vigorous heart of Czech nationalism, participated in the Zionist student movement, studied the question of nationality in multinational cultures, spent the World War One years in Asian Russia, and later traveled extensively in the Near East studying the nationalist movements of western and southern Asia. The work itself is the product of Kohn's later years at Harvard University. In The Idea of Nationalism, Kohn presents the single most influential articulation of the distinction between civic and ethnic nationalism. This has shaped nearly all ensuing research and public discussion and deeply informed parallel oppositions of early and late, Western and Eastern varieties of nationalism. Kohn also argues that the age of nationalism represents the first period of universal history. Civilizations and continents are brought into ever closer contact; popular participation in politics is enormously increased; and the secular state is ever more significant. The Idea of Nationalism is important both in itself and because it so deeply shaped all the work that followed it. After sixty years his interpretations and analyses remain acute and instructive. |
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... individuals mattered , and they achieved national con- sciousness . The two are commonly opposed — or at least they have ... individual dignity , subject to the will of their despotic rulers , without participation in a national mission ...
... individual from the narrow traditions of family , clan , and city and prepared the way for a broader " community of individuals held together by intellectual instead of tribal or local bonds " ( p . 57 ) . This seems to have been most ...
... individual , of ethnic loyalty over human rights , and of tradition over reason . And even more commonly , liberalism has swept its own tacit reli- ance on nationalist thinking under the carpet , failing to analyze why the population of ...
... individuals in the world as a whole . These issues have come to the fore recently in response to globalization ... individual liberty , and a hu- mane ethical nationalism . " 23 At the same time , Kohn lived through a fun- damental ...
... individual groups , but between two forms of universal- ism , Sacerdotium and Imperium ( p . 79 ) .2' Indeed , however much the power of the Holy Roman Empire might fade after Charlemagne , the inherited notion of continuing Roman ...