''Nations and Nationalism'' is an influential 1983 book by the philosopher
Ernest Gellner
Ernest André Gellner FRAI (9 December 1925 – 5 November 1995) was a British- Czech philosopher and social anthropologist described by ''The Daily Telegraph'', when he died, as one of the world's most vigorous intellectuals, and by ''The ...
, in which the author expands on
his theory of nationalism.
O'Leary describes the book as "Gellner's most elaborate statement on the subject (of
nationalism
Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement, nationalism tends to promote the interests of a particular nation (as in a group of people), Smith, Anthony. ''Nationalism: The ...
); because it is largely an expansion of the themes first
sketched in ''
Thought and Change''.... he never repudiated any of the core propositions advanced in these texts", but he clarifies and qualifies some of them further in his ''Encounters with Nationalism'' (1994).
See also
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Gellner's theory of nationalism
Gellner's theory of nationalism was developed by Ernest Gellner over a number of publications from around the early 1960s to his 1995 death. Gellner discussed nationalism in a number of works, starting with ''Thought and Change'' (1964), and he mos ...
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Nations and Nationalism (journal)
''Nations and Nationalism'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research on nationalism and related issues. It is published quarterly on behalf of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism by Wiley-Blackwell. Anthony D. ...
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References
External links
Ernest Gellner’s Nations and Nationalism: A book critique.Saed Kakei
1983 non-fiction books
Books about nationalism
Books by Ernest Gellner
English-language books
Nations and Nationalism
Nations and Nationalism
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