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.
开始读的时候觉得不就是Modernization Theory么...好无语，不过越往后看，发现Gellner虽然有一些eurocentric的偏见，但是分析的相当到位，比如说其实state最强大的一点不是monopoly of violence，而是monopoly of education。他让我意识到语言，教育和文化的紧密关系，看清了这一点，对于nationalism的核心也就有了非常好的把...开始读的时候觉得不就是Modernization Theory么...好无语，不过越往后看，发现Gellner虽然有一些eurocentric的偏见，但是分析的相当到位，比如说其实state最强大的一点不是monopoly of violence，而是monopoly of education。他让我意识到语言，教育和文化的紧密关系，看清了这一点，对于nationalism的核心也就有了非常好的把握。虽然各种理论对它的形成不尽相同，但是都强调了教育的重要性。研究Nationalism必读之书！(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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2 有用 MK 2012-03-23 13:22:39
开始读的时候觉得不就是Modernization Theory么...好无语，不过越往后看，发现Gellner虽然有一些eurocentric的偏见，但是分析的相当到位，比如说其实state最强大的一点不是monopoly of violence，而是monopoly of education。他让我意识到语言，教育和文化的紧密关系，看清了这一点，对于nationalism的核心也就有了非常好的把... 开始读的时候觉得不就是Modernization Theory么...好无语，不过越往后看，发现Gellner虽然有一些eurocentric的偏见，但是分析的相当到位，比如说其实state最强大的一点不是monopoly of violence，而是monopoly of education。他让我意识到语言，教育和文化的紧密关系，看清了这一点，对于nationalism的核心也就有了非常好的把握。虽然各种理论对它的形成不尽相同，但是都强调了教育的重要性。研究Nationalism必读之书！ (展开)
0 有用 沛芝东欧控 2010-02-15 05:03:04
disappointed nothing surprisingly good
0 有用 Phyllis 2015-05-07 05:40:51
This is what they got from Silverstein I guess.
0 有用 tseliotinwl 2012-05-23 12:28:59
扫了一眼。
0 有用 Peipei 2009-05-15 02:14:50
这个领域的一本重要著作。