Editing Anderson 2006 (section)

==Concepts and Definitions==

Three paradoxes of nations/nationalism
#Objective modernity of nations to historians vs. subjective antiquity to nationalists
#Formal universality of nationality as a socio-cultural concept vs. its concrete manifestations
#Political power of nationalisms vs. their lack of philosophy

*'''Issue:''' nationalism often classified as an ideology (similar to kinship and religion)

*'''Definition of Nation:''' an imagined political community, imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign
**Imagined: members of a nation will never know  most of their fellow members, but share communion. **Nationalism invents nations where they do not exist.
**Limited: nations have finite (but elastic) boundaries
**Sovereign: Enlightenment and Revolution destroyed legitimacy of the divine realm, created during religious **unrest and therefore symbolizes freedom
**Community: nations hold horizontal comradeship