![]() ![]() To understand them properly we need to consider carefully how they have come into historical being, in what ways their meanings have changed over time, and why, today, they command such profound emotional legitimacy. ![]() My point of departure is that nationality, or, as one might prefer to put it in view of that word’s multiple significations, nation-ness, as well as nationalism, are cultural artefacts of a particular kind. My sense is that on this topic both Marxist and liberal theory have become etiolated in a late Ptolemaic effort to “save the phenomena” and that a reorientation of perspective in, as it were, a Copernican spirit is urgently required. The aim of this book is to offer some tentative suggestions for a more satisfactory interpretation of the “anomaly” of nationalism. ![]()
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