DANC 010AD Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Economic Nationalism, Integral Nationalism, Turkish Nationalism
Document Summary
No concept of an inequality of all nations. Emergence of nations as the unification of a peaceful world order. Language is the mean thing of how people feel communality and identify itself and distinguish themselves. The true volksgeist could be distinguished out of the style of language of the common people. Culture is something that needs to be protected, but never argued that this should be incorporated into a political framework. The aristocracy had disconnected themselves from the common, because they were. Multilanguage spoken and could participate in debates in europe. Every nation had a different calling or role to fulfill for humanity. England had to industrialize and create overseas colonies; russia had to civilize asia; Germany had to philosophize, italy had to lead the world as a third rome". A people could only fulfill the role, its myth and legends had established, if it was free and independent.