The world-famous work on the origins and development of nationalism
The full magnitude of Benedict Anderson’s intellectual achievement is still being appreciated and debated. Imagined Communities remains the most influential book on the origins of nationalism, filling the vacuum that previously existed in the traditions of Western thought. Cited more often than any other single...
The world-famous work on the origins and development of nationalism
The full magnitude of Benedict Anderson’s intellectual achievement is still being appreciated and debated. Imagined Communities remains the most influential book on the origins of nationalism, filling the vacuum that previously existed in the traditions of Western thought. Cited more often than any other single English-language work in the human sciences, it is read around the world in more than thirty translations.
Written with exemplary clarity, this illuminating study traces the emergence of community as an idea to South America, rather than to nineteenth-century Europe. Later, this sense of belonging was formed and reformulated at every level, from high politics to popular culture, through print, literature, maps and museums. Following the rise and conflict of nations and the decline of empires, Anderson draws on examples from South East Asia, Latin America and Europe’s recent past to show how nationalism shaped the modern world.
Benedict Anderson (1936–2015) was Aaron L. Binenkorp Professor of International Studies Emeritus at Cornell University. He was Editor of the journal Indonesia and author of Java in a Time of Revolution; The Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia, and the World; The Age of Globalization: Anarchists and the Anticolonial Imagination; and Imagined Communities.
“Proverbially, a writer loses his/her book at the moment that it is published and enters the public sphere.” Travel and Traffic: On the Geo-biography of Imagined Communities 大部分严肃作品的译本总会饱受翻译的诟病，虽然的确有一部分译者的责任，不可否认的是...
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最近在看本尼迪克特·安德森Benedict Anderson《想像的共同体：民族主义的起源与散布Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism》。 感觉翻译很是流畅，便查了下该书翻译【吴叡人】是否有其他译作，结果发现《想象的共同体》台湾繁体版的翻译...
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0 有用 耳虫 2019-09-28 20:43:14
Constructivist and modernist thought. Print capitalism. 书的缘起是中越战争，回应马克思主义（比较Anderson & Gellner，也会发现都在现代化的框架下，一人说capitalism，一人说industrialism.）以前看最难懂的地方是secularization，现在也是… #w2
1 有用 山魏巍 2026-06-27 19:41:35 安徽
民族不是假的，是历史、语言、教育和政治共同塑造出来的真实。
0 有用 nassse 2023-06-24 22:10:05 美国
懒得看后记了，print capitalism,pilgrimage对塑造现代国家的作用。对别的国家不太了解所以看得还蛮津津有味（当然那些领导人的名字都记不住），但对于中国的确解释力不够。。（作者也没怎么提，这很有意思）有些观点还是蛮有意思的，但我觉得这本书最重要的意义是开了一个用建构主义去解读国家的先河，因而受到后世政治学者的推崇-相比之下，其具体的观点倒显得没那么惊人了。无论如何，依然对政治学... 懒得看后记了，print capitalism,pilgrimage对塑造现代国家的作用。对别的国家不太了解所以看得还蛮津津有味（当然那些领导人的名字都记不住），但对于中国的确解释力不够。。（作者也没怎么提，这很有意思）有些观点还是蛮有意思的，但我觉得这本书最重要的意义是开了一个用建构主义去解读国家的先河，因而受到后世政治学者的推崇-相比之下，其具体的观点倒显得没那么惊人了。无论如何，依然对政治学者毫无负担将地游走于各个地区的案例，随手拿来理论化的精神感到真心钦慕-城市学者有时的确太过束手束脚了 (展开)
0 有用 🍅 2018-02-06 08:17:21
翻了一下豆瓣上中文版的目录，2005/6年那一版被安德森在后记里批了一番，2011那版收录了后记，好奇后记里批评的话有没有被删掉🤔
0 有用 pinellia 2017-12-15 05:26:39
So inspiring~