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Benedict Anderson arrived at his theory because he felt neither Marxist nor liberal theory adequately explained nationalism. Anderson falls into the "historicist" or "modernist" school of nationalism along with Ernest Gellner and Eric Hobsbawm in that he posits that nations and nationalism are products of modernity and have been created as ...
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 ...
Nationalism is an idea so influential that people will die for their nations, yet at the same time an idea difficult to define. [2] In Anderson's theory of nationalism, the phenomenon only came about as people began rejecting three key beliefs about their society:
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]
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.
Nationalism studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to the study of nationalism and related issues. While nationalism has been the subject of scholarly discussion since at least the late eighteenth century, it is only since the early 1990s that it has received enough attention for a distinct field to emerge.
Anderson argues that the racism often experienced as a result of colonial rule and attributed to nationalism is rather due to theories of class. [177] Gellner's theory of nationalism argues that nationalism works for combining one culture or ethnicity in one state, which leads to that state's success. For Gellner, nationalism is ethnic, and ...
A Theory of Justice countered utilitarian thinking in the tradition of Jeremy Bentham, instead following the Kantian concept of a social contract, picturing society as a mutual agreement between rational citizens, producing rights and duties as well as establishing and defining roles and tasks of the state.