Benedict Anderson Quotes

What I am proposing is that Nationalism has to be understood, by aligning it not with self-consciously held political ideologies, but with large cultural systems that preceded it, out of which — as well as against which — it came into being.

Benedict Anderson

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• What I am proposing is that Nationalism has to be understood, by aligning it not with self-consciously held political ideologies, but with large cultural systems that preceded it, out of which — as well as against which — it came into being.

  

  Benedict Anderson
  • Nationalism
  • Ideologies
  • Cultural Systems