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Cultural Programmes, The Construction of Collective Identities and the Continual Reconstruction of Primordiality

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Neuer Mensch und kollektive Identität in der Kommunikationsgesellschaft

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Collectivities, collective identities and boundaries – be they ‘ethnic,’ ‘national,’ religious, civilizational or under whatever name they are designated – are not, as has been often assumed in relevant literature, epiphenomenal or secondary to power and economic forces and relations constituting ‘imagined’ communities which in modern times developed in response to the expansion of capitalism, industrialism and imperialism, nor are they continual semi-natural, primordial and ontologically independent entities, existing as it were almost in eternity.

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Eisenstadt, S.N. (2009). Cultural Programmes, The Construction of Collective Identities and the Continual Reconstruction of Primordiality. In: Gerhard, P. (eds) Neuer Mensch und kollektive Identität in der Kommunikationsgesellschaft. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-91471-8_10

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