Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism

Series Editor's Preface. Introduction by John Breuilly. Acknowledgements. 1. Definitions. State and nation. The nation. 2. Culture in Agrarian Society. Power and culture in the agro-literature society. The varieties of agrarian rulers. 3. Industrial Society. The society of perpetual growth. Social genetics. The age of universal high culture. 4. The Transition to an Age of Nationalism. A note on the weakness of nationalism. Wild and garden culture. 5. What is a Nation. The course of true nationalism never did run smooth. 6. Social Entropy and Equality in Industrial Society. Obstacles to entropy. Fissures and barriers. A diversity of focus. 7. A Typology of Nationalisms. The varieties of nationalist experience. Diaspora nationalism. 8. The Future of Nationalism. Industrial culture - one or many?. 9. Nationalism and Ideology. Who is for Nuremberg?. One nation, one state. 10. Conclusion. What is not being said. Summary. Select bibliography. Bilbliography of Ernest Gellner's writing: Ian Jarvie. Index

Nations and Nationalism

It comes as something ofa surprise to reflect that the New York Review ofBooks is now over twenty years old. Even people of my generation (that is, old enough to remember the revolutionary 196os but not young enough to have taken a very exciting part in them) think of the paper as eternally youthful. In fact, it has gone through years of relatively quiet life, yet, as always in a competitive journalistic market, it is the controversies that attract the interest of the reader and to which the history (especially an admittedly impressionistic survey that tries to include something of the intellectual context in which a journal has operated) must give some attention. Not all the attacks which the New York Review has attracted, both early in its career and more recently, are worth more than a brief summary. What do we now make, for example, of Richard Kostelanetz's forthright accusation that 'The New York Review was from its origins destined to publicize Random House's (and especially [Jason] Epstein's) books and writers'?1 Well, simply that, even if the statistics bear out the charge (and Kostelanetz provides some suggestive evidence to support it, at least with respect to some early issues), there is nothing surprising in a market economy about a publisher trying to push his books through the pages of a journal edited by his friends. True, the New York Review has not had room to review more than around fifteen books in each issue and there could be a bias in the selection of

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Ethnic Groups in Conflict

A. L. Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn, "culture: A critical review of concepts and definitions"

Reconfiguring the French nation: Public debates on the Left and national identity

HOMOGENEITY AND CONFLICT - David D. Laitin: Nations, States, and Violence (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. 162. $39.99.)

Walker Connor (1926–2017), pioneer in the study of nationalism

Rule of the unwise: Emotions and rationality in ethnonationalism

A book review of Language and Solitude: Wittgenstein, Malinowski, and the Habsburg dilemma, by Ernest Gellner.

Daniele Conversi

Papers

Reconfiguring the French nation: Public debates on the Left and national identity

HOMOGENEITY AND CONFLICT - David D. Laitin: Nations, States, and Violence (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. 162. $39.99.)

Walker Connor (1926–2017), pioneer in the study of nationalism

Rule of the unwise: Emotions and rationality in ethnonationalism

Ernest Gellner as Critic of Social Thought: Nationalism, Closed Systems and the Central European Tradition