POLSCI 397 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sacred Language, Nationstates

• School: U of M
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 397
• Professor: Ronald G. Suny

Document Summary

Benedict anderson clearly outlines the emergence of nationalism as a project of bringing peoples together into an imagined community . Throughout this course we have analyzed the different theories of nationalism which also take on the project of creating a cohesive social group sharing ideas of history, politics, and territoriality. Using anderson (and others) argue for the most important component in this mixture of discourses. What seems to be most important for the emergence of nations, what is the secret ingredient . Body 1: introduction of anderson"s theory and present that the fundamental organizing principle is language (the secret ingredient ) Essentially, i have been arguing that the very possibility of imagining the nation only arose when, and where, three fundamental cultural conceptions, all of great antiquity, lost their axiomatic grip on men"s minds (pg. Language and, by extension, nationhood is defined by people not g-d.