HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Theodor Herzl, Volksgeist, Ernst Moritz Arndt
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Nationalism: modern phenomenon; population w/ characteristics that bind it together & that therefore has the right to self-determination; became primary for sovereignty & expression of political rights. In medieval & early modern europe, nation referred to a geographic/linguistic/cultural community, not as a political category of political & cultural sovereignty. The principle of all sovereignty resides essentially in the nation. No body nor individual may exercise any authority which does not proceed directly from the nation. Shift from subject to citizen; emphasis in individual identity instead of being a passive subject of a king. To have done great things together and to wish to do more, those are the essential conditions for a people. The existence of a nation is a daily plebiscite. He dismissed the idea of the nation is objective, that it occurs naturally: it owes its existence to the continuing allegiance to guiding principles (sometimes called civic nationalism, like that of the fr.
