What Is a Nation? (Qu’est-Ce Qu’une Nation?)

What Is a Nation? (Qu’est-Ce Qu’une Nation?). Renan, E. & Giglioli, M. F. N. In What Is a Nation? and Other Political Writings, pages 247–263. Columbia University Press, 1882.

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I propose to analyze with you an idea that seems clear, but lends itself to the most dangerous misunderstandings. The forms of human society are exceedingly varied. The vast agglomerations of men in China, Egypt, or the most ancient Babylonia; the tribes of the Hebrews, the Arabs; the city-states of Athens or Sparta, the assemblies of disparate lands after the fashion of the Achaemenid Empire,¹ the Roman Empire, the Carolingian Empire; the communities without a fatherland, preserved by a religious bond, such as those of the Israelites and the Parsees; nations, such as France, England, and most modern European independent

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	abstract = {I propose to analyze with you an idea that seems clear, but lends itself to the most dangerous misunderstandings. The forms of human society are exceedingly varied. The vast agglomerations of men in China, Egypt, or the most ancient Babylonia; the tribes of the Hebrews, the Arabs; the city-states of Athens or Sparta, the assemblies of disparate lands after the fashion of the Achaemenid Empire,¹ the Roman Empire, the Carolingian Empire; the communities without a fatherland, preserved by a religious bond, such as those of the Israelites and the Parsees; nations, such as France, England, and most modern European independent},
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