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The Theory of Nationhood

A Platonic Symposium

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  • © 1998

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Authors:
  1. Derek Heater
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Prologue

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Explanations

      • Derek Heater
      Pages 3-8

    3. Contexts

      • Derek Heater
      Pages 9-60

  3. Discussion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61
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    2. First Session: The Nature of Nations

      • Derek Heater
      Pages 63-81

    3. Second Session: Political and Social Contexts

      • Derek Heater
      Pages 82-96

    4. Third Session: Rights and Characters of Nations

      • Derek Heater
      Pages 97-108

    5. Fourth Session: The Individual and the Nation

      • Derek Heater
      Pages 109-115

  4. Summing Up

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117
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    2. Judgements

      • Derek Heater
      Pages 119-159

    3. Comparisons

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      Pages 160-167

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 168-196
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An innovative and entertaining examination of the theory of nationalism. Derek Heater brings together the seven most influential - for good or evil - European thinkers on nationalism from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. Herder, Fichte, Mazzini, Mill, Renan, Hitler and Stalin together debate their ideas in a platonic symposium, using the words from their own works in the central part of the book. The first part of the book introduces each thinker in the appropriate historical context, while the third part considers judgements on their thought.

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