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Before proceeding further, a rapid digression is indispensable regarding the “national question” in general and the “crisis of the nation-state” in particular. The debate surrounding the “nation” gave rise to concepts as varied as the nations themselves. Even more so, for the concept of nation changes not only in space but also with time. The key is not to define the supposedly true nature of a “nation”— and of its political form, the nation-state, which does not exist—but rather to find a political and historical meaning that might help us pierce the mystery of the Italian nation.
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José Gil, “Nazione”in Enciclopedia Einaudi, vol. IX, ed. Ruggiero Romano (Turin: Einaudi, 1980), 851.
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, Écritspolitiqu.es (Paris: Edition des archives contemporaines, 1994), 121.
Lucio Caracciolo, “Editorial,” Limes 1994, no. 4:9.
Sergio Romano, “Così muore una nazione” La Stampa, January 11, 1996.
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Graziano, M. (2010). The Phantom Nation. In: The Failure of Italian Nationhood. Italian and Italian American Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230113060_4
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