Nationalism
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."
Print Book, English, 1997
New York University Press, Washington Square, N.Y., 1997
x, 114 pages ; 21 cm
9780814731130, 0814731139
37353976
Culture and power
Culture and organisation, states and nationalism
A short history of mankind
The industrial and indusrialising world
The plurality of melting-pots
Stages of transition
The marriage of state and culture
The murderous virulence of nationalism
The three stages of morality
Roots against reason
Roots and man
Faith and culture
Muslim fundamentalism and Arab nationalism
Marxism and Islam
Do nations have navels?
Practical implications