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Benedict anderson nationalism
Benedict anderson nationalism




The success of the book thrust him onto the international stage and once there he was uncomfortable playing the role expected of him, a kind of grand sage of left social theory on par with contemporaries such as Said, Noam Chomsky and Jürgen Habermas. Anderson was like a person who posts a home video online and then discovers the next morning that she is an international celebrity.Īs a professor in the Department of Government at Cornell University, he was prominent in the field of Southeast Asian studies but had not attracted much attention outside of that relatively small field. The reception of Imagined Communities took its author by surprise. Translated into 29 languages, the book has been one of the best-selling titles for Verso, the left-wing press based in London that has been partly managed by his younger brother, Perry Anderson. It sparked a wave of new studies on nationalism and became as much a phenomenon as Edward Said’s book Orientalism (1978). Memorial Essay: Benedict Anderson | Solidarity Memorial Essay: Benedict AndersonīENEDICT ANDERSON, WHO passed away on December 13 last year, is best known as the author of the book Imagined Communities (1983), which remains today a must-read book on nationalism for university students all around the world.






Benedict anderson nationalism