CAS201H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: American Civil War, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Imagined Communities
8 Oct 2018
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Thesis: the definition of nation: an imagined political community- and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign. Communities are to be distinguished, not by falsity/genuineness, but by style in which they are imagined. There is no such thing as western civilisation, the guardian, 9 november 2016. Because we"re all human is the identity that worth holding to. Essence of culture: whatever you choose to distinguish a region is not going to be that. And as the colonization happens, the label keeps still. Appiah compared arguments from tyler and arnold(opposite arguments) and then summarizes an argument that both of them can agree(about what is culture ): Culture isn"t a box to check on the questionnaire of humanity, it is process you join, a life lived with others. There is no such thing as a free market, . In chang"s 23 things you didn"t know about capitalism. And actors alwaysinvolve states in their actions to impact markets in their favour.
