National Thought in Europe

A Cultural History - 3rd Revised Edition
0. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-94-6298-954-2
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 332 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 561 g

Reihe: Amsterdam University Press

Bringing together sources from many countries and many centuries, this study critically analyses the growth of national thought and of nationalism — from medieval ethnic prejudice to the Romantic belief in a nation’s ‘soul’. The belief and ideology of the nation’s cultural individuality emerged from a Europe-wide exchange of ideas, often articulated in literature and belles lettres. In the last two centuries, these ideas have transformed the map of Europe and the relations between people and government. In tracing the modern European nation-state, cross-nationally and historically, as the outcome of a cultural self-invention, Leerssen also provides a surprising perspective on Europe’s contemporary identity politics.

National Thought in Europe has been brought up to date in this new, third edition.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leerssen, Joep

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations Foreword to the Third Edition Preface Introduction Source Traditions Wilderness, Exoticism and the State’s Order: Medieval Views The Renaissance and Democratic Primitivism Anthropology and the Nation: Character and Climate in the Seventeenth Century Politics and the Nation: Patriotism and Democracy in Enlightenment Thought The Nation Empowered: Popular Sovereignty and National Unity in the French Revolution Culture and the Nation: Literature, the Public Sphere and Anti-French Relativism The Politics of National Identity Napoleon and the Rise of Political Romanticism Napoleon and the Rise of National Historicism Restoration and the Nation-State Nationalism as State Centralism Nationalism as Unification Nationalism as Separatism Identity Rampant The Nation’s Sources, the State’s Borders: Culture into Geopolitics The Nationalization of Culture Ethnic Nationalism and Racism Versailles and after Aftermath and Conclusions: Twentieth-Century Issues Taming National Sovereignty: Transnationalism and Internationalism Postnationalism Neonationalism: After the Cold War Beyond the Nation-State? Appendices Languages, Alphabets, Dialects and Language Politics Source References Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Leerssen, Joep
Joep Leerssen holds the Chair of Modern European Literature at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of many authoritative studies on the relations between literature, historical consciousness and nationalism.

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