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==Introduction== | ==Introduction== | ||
Nationality (nation-ness and nationalism) as a cultural artifacts | |||
*Need to understand | *Need to understand | ||
**How they have come into being | **How they have come into being | ||
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**Why they hold emotional legitimacy today | **Why they hold emotional legitimacy today | ||
Argument: the creation stems from the historical forces aligning, then became moveable, interactive socially, politically, and ideologically | |||
==Concepts and Definitions== | ==Concepts and Definitions== | ||
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#Political power of nationalisms vs. their lack of philosophy | #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 | *'''Definition of Nation:''' an imagined political community, imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign | ||
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*Emblems of the modern culture of nationalism → tombs of Unknown Soldiers | *Emblems of the modern culture of nationalism → tombs of Unknown Soldiers | ||
*Hold ghostly national imaginings, even though no one knows of their origins | |||
*Dawn of the age of nationalism, but dusk of religious modes of thought | *Dawn of the age of nationalism, but dusk of religious modes of thought | ||
Required a continuity with meaning | |||
Nations were suited to fill in the void, because they loom out of the past and glide into the future | |||
Does not suggest a causal relationship, but contextualizes the culture systems preceding it | |||
Three cultural conceptions that lost power: | |||
Script-language offered privileged access to ontological truth | |||
Society was naturally organized around/under high centers (like a monarch) | |||
Cosmology and historical were indistinguishable, origins of man and the world were identical | |||
==Origins of National Consciousness== | ==Origins of National Consciousness== | ||
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*Book-publishing services searched for markets, initially Europe (Latin) | *Book-publishing services searched for markets, initially Europe (Latin) | ||
Expanded due to three reasons: | |||
Change in Latin | |||
Impact of the Reformation (really promoted the print market) | |||
Slow and uneven spread of vernaculars as tools for administrative centralization (there was no systematic imposition of language) | |||
Print languages laid the groundwork for national consciousness in three ways: | |||
Unified fields of exchange and communications through print and paper: allowed people to grow aware of their thousands of people in their language field, connected through print | |||
Fixity to language: printed books kept a permanent form, were not unconsciously modernized | |||
Languages of power: dominant languages in print gained power | |||
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