Imagined Communities unc想象的共同体北.pptVIP

Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson, 1983 Ch 1: Introduction Nation, Nationality, and Nationalism are innovative, recent concepts, artifacts created in late 18th century due to historical circumstance, but easily transplanted to the rest of the world lack definitions and defy analysis, arouse deep attachments Three paradoxes of Nationalism 1) Objective modernity of nations vs. their subjective antiquity 2) Formal universality of nationality as a socio-cultural concept vs. irremediable particularity of concrete manifestations of nationality 3) Political power of nationalisms vs. their ph