MMW 14 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nitobe Inazō, Imagined Community, Age Of Enlightenment
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Concepts: cultural roots of (cid:373)oder(cid:374) europe; (cid:862)traditio(cid:374)(cid:863) vs. (cid:862)(cid:373)oder(cid:374)(cid:863) values; secularizatio(cid:374); the west a(cid:374)d/vs. (cid:862)the rest(cid:863) Anderson imagined community: forms of community in the nineteenth century are imagined / imaginary as well as real. Dawn of the age of nationalism attempted to answer questions that previously only religion had. The enlightenment is often referred to as the age of disenchantment. Demystification, what anderson calls rational secularism, constitutes the onset of this new way of thinking: nation as imagined community. Religious community: role of sacred script languages (latin, arabic, mandarin, Dynastic realm (warfare, sexual alliance, inheritance/primogeniture: high center and divinely ordered hierarchy, tired intermarriage as a method for integrating disparate territories and cultures, dissolution of dynastic states and empires as principle of legitimacy. Crisis of the empires that entered into a serious decline in the 17th and 18th centuries. Apprehensions of time simultaneity of all the events under heaven (divine plan, providence) vs. emergence of homogeneous empty.
