Nationalism is one of the most powerful forces in the modern world, yet it is surprisingly little studied and only imperfectly understood, either by its adherents or its opponents. Its irruption into the modern world is often explained as a resurgence of primitive, atavistic instincts, or as a delusion fostered by a few theoreticians, politicians or propagandists.
Nationalism is one of the most powerful forces in the modern world, yet it is surprisingly little studied and only imperfectly understood, either by its adherents or its opponents. Its irruption into the modern world is often explained as a resurgence of primitive, atavistic instincts, or as a delusion fostered by a few theoreticians, politicians or propagandists.
The present volume interprets nationalism in terms of its social roots, which it locates in industrial social organization. A society that aims for affluence and economic growth, Professor Gellner argues, depends on innovation, occupational mobility, mass media, universal literacy, and education in a shared, standard idiom. Taken together these transform the relationship between culture and the state. The functioning of the society depends on an all-embracing educational system, tied to one culture and protected by a state identified with that culture. The principle one state, one culture makes itself felt, and political units which do not conform to it feel the strain in the form of nationalist activity. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Table of Contents
About the Authors vii
About this Edition viii
Editor's Preface to the First Edition R. I. Moore, Founding Editor ix
Acknowledgements for the First Edition xi
Introduction John Breuilly xiii
1 Definitions 1
State and Nation 3
The Nation 5
2 Culture in Agrarian Society 8
Power and Culture in the Agro-literate Polity 9
Culture 11
The State in Agrarian Society 13
The Varieties of Agrarian Rulers 14
3 Industrial Society 19
The Society of Perpetual Growth 23
Social Genetics 29
The Age of Universal High Culture 34
4 The Transition to an Age of Nationalism 38
A Note on the Weakness of Nationalism 42
Wild and Garden Cultures 48
5 What is a Nation? 52
The Course of True Nationalism Never did Run Smooth 57
6 Social Entropy and Equality in Industrial Society 62
British philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist, self-described Enlightenment rationalist fundamentalist, born to Czech parents in Paris and raised in Prague, where he lived the last few years of his life, and died in 1995. He received a very thorough training in the Wittgensteinian "linguistic" or "ordinary language" philosophy fashionable in Britain (and more particularly...
British philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist, self-described Enlightenment rationalist fundamentalist, born to Czech parents in Paris and raised in Prague, where he lived the last few years of his life, and died in 1995. He received a very thorough training in the Wittgensteinian "linguistic" or "ordinary language" philosophy fashionable in Britain (and more particularly Oxford) in the '50s, and found himself quite unable to believe it, so he ran away to become an anthropologist, and studied the Berbers because a mountaineering group at the London School of Economics organized a trip to the Atlas. His first book, Words and Things (1959; preface by Russell, to whom he dedicated his second book) combined a crushing philosophical critique of linguistic philosophy with a sociological analysis of "the narodniks of North Oxford", "an intelligentsia without ideas." It was at once a succès de scandale (probably the only kind Gellner wanted, frankly) and the first real demonstration of his style: a devastating, hilarious combination of learning and intellectual seriousness with verbal play and irreverence, in particular an almost uncanny talent for finding apt, mocking names for things and ideas.
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Table of Contents
About the Authors vii
About this Edition viii
Editor's Preface to the First Edition R. I. Moore, Founding Editor ix
Acknowledgements for the First Edition xi
Introduction John Breuilly xiii
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Table of Contents
About the Authors vii
About this Edition viii
Editor's Preface to the First Edition R. I. Moore, Founding Editor ix
Acknowledgements for the First Edition xi
Introduction John Breuilly xiii
1 Definitions 1
State and Nation 3
The Nation 5
2 Culture in Agrarian Society 8
Power and Culture in the Agro-literate Polity 9
Culture 11
The State in Agrarian Society 13
The Varieties of Agrarian Rulers 14
3 Industrial Society 19
The Society of Perpetual Growth 23
Social Genetics 29
The Age of Universal High Culture 34
4 The Transition to an Age of Nationalism 38
A Note on the Weakness of Nationalism 42
Wild and Garden Cultures 48
5 What is a Nation? 52
The Course of True Nationalism Never did Run Smooth 57
6 Social Entropy and Equality in Industrial Society 62
Obstacles to Entropy 63
Fissures and Barriers 72
A Diversity of Focus 73
7 A Typology of Nationalisms 85
The Varieties of Nationalist Experience 94
Diaspora Nationalism 98
8 The Future of Nationalism 106
Industrial Culture - One or Many? 110
9 Nationalism and Ideology 118
Who is for Nuremberg? 125
One Nation, One State 128
10 Conclusion 131
What is not being Said 131
Summary 133
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Introduction: conceptual, empirical and explanatory criticisms. 在理。23, nationalism emerged in the transition from agrarian society to industrial one. Functionalist analysis. 一种可能性：提到的要素（eg. mass educ...Introduction: conceptual, empirical and explanatory criticisms. 在理。23, nationalism emerged in the transition from agrarian society to industrial one. Functionalist analysis. 一种可能性：提到的要素（eg. mass education）转化成解释民族主义起源的其他理论，跳脱结构主义框架。#w2(展开)
Benedict Anderson在《想象的共同體》新版序言中說，Earnest Gellner的Nation and Nationalism代表了功能主義視角研究民族問題，而他自己的作品則是從文化（人的想象）的角度研究。 Nation and Nationalism本版本開頭是Breuilly的介紹，其中梳理了民族主義問題研...
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正好写了reading memo就贴上来（说明如果不是要交作业我根本读书不认真，然而就算要交作业我还是读的不认真……） Gellner写得好，我写得垃圾，有缘点进来的旁友随便康康就好。 Main Arguments: From agrarian society to industrial society, the economic, social, cultural ...
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0 有用 真猪奶茶 2017-02-01 06:10:30
以功能主义的视角理解国家主义的形成。作者批评马克思的简化，但自己似乎也同样过于侧重工业化，将经济转变视为教育、意识形态等转变的原动力。那么那些至今仍然以农业生产为主的国家，他们的国家主义情感如何理解呢？中国近代的民族主义似乎也不建立在基于工业化需求产生的同质化的国家教育上。当然或许是我的误读漏读？
1 有用 耳虫 2019-10-15 07:01:30
Introduction: conceptual, empirical and explanatory criticisms. 在理。23, nationalism emerged in the transition from agrarian society to industrial one. Functionalist analysis. 一种可能性：提到的要素（eg. mass educ... Introduction: conceptual, empirical and explanatory criticisms. 在理。23, nationalism emerged in the transition from agrarian society to industrial one. Functionalist analysis. 一种可能性：提到的要素（eg. mass education）转化成解释民族主义起源的其他理论，跳脱结构主义框架。#w2 (展开)
0 有用 热饼干 2013-06-20 12:36:05
是我现在为止最喜欢的有关民族主义的读本。对Ernest的文字有着天然的喜爱。
2 有用 Philex 2009-06-23 19:13:38
论述nationalism 的两本经典，它和anderson的想象的共同体
0 有用 地下宇航员 2020-05-18 16:00:39
8.5/10.
0 有用 Riddle 2024-04-02 00:26:34 日本
经常读着读着就实在很想吐槽，你这个文笔是不是太文艺了一点？文青写书，文盲难受，谁tm是Kokoschaka？谁又是Modiglliani？能不能给没文化的留点活路，别比喻了直接说吧。可能是我的误读和偏见，文青恨马克思的样子都是爱他的形状…
0 有用 StevenZ 2024-03-13 20:36:04 上海
有点functionalism 不过和Anderson对读会很有趣
0 有用 贫僧想吃意面 2023-05-17 16:30:05 北京
功能主义的研究：工业化带来了社会分工，人们为了在高度分工化的社会中更好的沟通，需要有统一的文化和知识，因此出现了教育系统。人们通过教育得到知识，实现阶层流动，同时也带来了统一的national identity。这一统一的national identity由国家支持，也推动国家走向现代化
0 有用 Hanthaway 2023-02-02 03:57:37 美国
Anderson, Duara, Anthony, Hobsbawm再多读几个，就可以玩比较游戏了
0 有用 山无中 2022-05-04 02:58:42
跳着看完的，fyp刚需，走马观花，有时间一定仔细拜读。非常丰富的观点