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Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson (August 26, 1936 – December 13, 2015) was an Anglo-Irish political scientist and historian who lived and taught in the United States. Anderson is best known for his 1983 book Imagined Communities , which explored the origins of nationalism .
Anderson depicts a nation as a socially-constructed community, imagined by the people who perceive themselves as part of a group. [1]: 6–7 Anderson focuses on the way media creates imagined communities, especially the power of print media in shaping an individual's social psyche. Anderson analyzes the written word, a tool used by churches ...
According to Anderson's theory of imagined communities, the main historical causes of nationalism include: the increasing importance of mass vernacular literacy,; the movement to abolish the ideas of rule by divine right and hereditary monarchy ("the concept was born in an age in which Enlightenment and Revolution were destroying the legitimacy of the divinely ordained, hierarchical dynastic ...
Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination is a 2006 book by Benedict Anderson on the intersection of Philippine nationalism and late 19th century anarchism. It was later republished as The Age of Globalization: Anarchists and the Anti-Colonial Imagination .
— Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson and Ruth Thomas McVey, "Memorandum", A Preliminary Analysis of the October 1, 1965, Coup in Indonesia Anderson and McVey reproduced twenty copies of the paper using mimeographs and circulated them to both Cornell and non-Cornell scholars and officials requesting their commentary and criticism.
Print capitalism is a theory underlying the concept of a nation, as a group that forms an imagined community, that emerges with a common language and discourse that is generated from the use of the printing press, proliferated by a capitalist marketplace.
Anderson has written many books, most recently Different Speeds, Same Furies: Powell, Proust and other Literary Forms and Disputing Disaster: A Sextet on the Great War. He is the brother of political scientist Benedict Anderson (1936–2015).
Modernization theory is the predominant explanation for the emergence of nationalism among scholars of nationalism. [1] [2] [3] Prominent modernization scholars, such as Benedict Anderson, Ernest Gellner and Eric Hobsbawm, say nationalism arose with modernization during the late 18th century. [4]