Intellectual Elites and the Vicissitudes of <Imagined Nation> in Poland
Intellectual Elites and the Vicissitudes of <Imagined Nation> in Poland
Author(s): Andrzej WalickiSubject(s): Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Marxism, Nationalism Studies, Period(s) of Nation Building, Identity of Collectives
Published by: SAGE Publications Ltd
Keywords: Nations; nationalism; nation-building; imagined communities; Poland; Marxism; bourgeois democratic progress; social classes;
Summary/Abstract: There is nothing new in the thesis that nations are not "natural" and everlasting subdivisions of humanity. There is no need to repeat constantly that modern nations are of relatively recent origin. People interested in the problem should have realized that this had been made clear more than a hundred years ago, primarily by Marxists in the multinational Habsburg empire, and that the best, classic works on this subject were published at the very beginning of our century. [...]
Journal: East European Politics and Societies
- Issue Year: 11/1997
- Issue No: 02
- Page Range: 227-253
- Page Count: 27
- Language: English
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