![]() ![]() ![]() The people from this same community will, however, keep in their minds the idea of what they have in common and imagine a common community between them. ![]() Anderson, then, defines it as “…an imagined political community” that is imagined in both limitation and sovereignty.Īnderson uses the word imagined to define nation, because he affirms that even the people from a small community, will not know everyone from that community, or meet them or even hear about them. In order to understand better the concept of nationalism, Anderson starts analyzing the word that is the root of nationalism, which is the word nation. Anderson suggests that one should not think of nationalism as an ideology like “fascism” or “liberalism”, but to relate it with “kinship” and “religion” in order to understand the similarity that groups of people have and why the territory that they live help one understand the borders that we have nowadays. There has never been a great thinker treating this concept as thoroughly as other concepts. Imagined Communities The concept of nationalism, according to Benedict Anderson, has never been deeply discussed. Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson, summary ![]()
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