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Logika nacionalizma
Logic of Nationalism

Author(s): Rifat Redžović
Subject(s): Metaphysics, Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Governance, Nationalism Studies
Published by: Univerzitet u Sarajevu
Keywords: nation; nationalism; people; ideology; state; elites;

Summary/Abstract: The problem that we will deal with in this paper is the phenomenon of the nation and its practical articulation through the emergence of nationalism that has different forms of its appearance with emphasis on that negative note of nationalism that here, in this region, only in this context is watched and based on the facts that speak in favor of our hypothesis that nationalism is created and practically applies through the bureaucratic structures of mythmania of unity and supernatural uniqueness. Excessive narrations on these and similar phenomena are unnecessary if we look at the logical structure of concepts that do not have their correlative in nature and which cannot be "exactly" studied. To represent the nation as a fictional, imaginary, disputed or as another imaginary community is in our opinion a big delusion that for the simple reason that both the nation and nationalism of their existence and their exactness, show in such visible and unquestionable ways that when reviewing results of their perseverance we can talk about the horrors of the largest-scale which "imagination" make into reality. How much they are imaginary, fictitious and disputable notions of the type of nation and nationalism, to the same extent such are, fictitious and disputable are, fictious are the concepts of number and other mathematical operations, radio waves, laws, morality and so on. Our point of view is that nations and nationalism have their basis in logic of the very concepts that have their genesis and their specificity on the basis of social interaction relationships that are largely complex of physical phenomena and relationships that exist in a physical world. Nationalism as a practical side of the nation is bureaucratized of ideology that the state apparatus implement in the way of the culture dimensions so that all, or nearly all state institutions are in the course of national interests of creating of conform opinion of the ruling elite that "nationalize" certain interests.

  • Issue Year: LVI/2015
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 119-132
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Bosnian