Description
This new contribution to the critique of nationalist thought aims to examine a specific phenomenon: the nation-state. It acknowledges that the development of the nation-state has impacted the fundamental tenets of nationalist theory—namely, the unity of language, culture, and history.
Traditional nationalist theory, which assumed the stability of shared language, culture, and history and viewed nation-states as mere “cardboard” entities destined for collapse, now finds itself powerless in the face of the “nationalization” of these entities, as well as the “nationalization” of national language, culture, and history.
The central focus of this study is to re-evaluate the idealism and cultural bias of nationalist theory, restoring the political factor in the rise and fall of nations: the state. The nation, more than its language or history, is the nation-state.
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