What are Imagined Communities? | Benedict Anderson | Keyword

In this episode, I explain Benedict Anderson's notion of Imagined Communities.
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[@paulwolinsky1538]

I just picked up IC today and read the first couple of chapters. It seems like an interesting and important book in many ways, but the thing that I find sort of difficult and troubling is the question - which is not really Anderson's, but possibly C. Wright Millls', on how issues of national character, or maybe historical and economic problems - things like globalization's effects on the American middle class - feed into or influence personal identities and self-perceptions.
Things like nationhood, the nation, our national "inheritance" as Americans - according to the MAGA Republicans - were alluded to again and again outside of any real conversation about how all of these things had been eroded over decades, and could not simply be 'turned around' by Donald Trump, or anyone else.
All of this kind of hit home for me when I read in the first chapter, where Anderson refers to another scholar of nationalism named Nairn, who says that nationalism is kind of like personal neurosis writ large, or something like infantilism.
Thanks much for this intro to the book, which I hope to finish reading soon.

[@giraykalkan8474]

The things he described seemed so abstract that I had nothing left in my mind after reading the book. And it will be probably the same after this video. Thanks anyway.

[@mybiggrin]

Most difficult literature I've ever read. I've never hated something so much lol

[@aristocratic]

I think that's entirely the point of conceiving of nationality and nationhood. The 'imagined' part is the abstraction involved in trying to understand why millions of people can be bound together. It remains in the abstract but that doesn't make it any less real.

[@alexsidney4796]

Massumi and Dean's First and Last Emperors nails this process using the over coding of the first Chinese state as example.

[@Betmas2]

Would you please do a video about Marc auge places and non-places.

[@iwidela]

seconded!

[@ceesjanmol]

How can you talk about this book without mentioning Indonesia and the radio?

[@xorotorox4034]

Good job ❤

[@jubabiee22]

Well explained

[@tuvavetrhus4361]

whos the artist behind the tapestry?:)

[@nyazsalh5220]

Thanks David 🙏 please make reviews about wittgenstein‘s books.

[@I_I_I_I_I_I_I]

Have an exam in 23 hours! Thank you🙌🏻

[@jasleenkaur925]

I request you to make a video on hauntology and spectrality.

[@aceous99]

Nationalism, the last refuge of scoundrel? - Samuel Pepys?

[@jinugv6369]

politics ,isn't it?

[@madzen112]

Never have such a shallow concept reached such a wide academic audience & been applied so poorly.

[@jinugv6369]

Thank u easily understandable!!❤u

[@psikeyhackr6914]

Voyage from Yesteryear by James P Hogan

[@stevie7666]

Really helpful, thank you!!

[@klarabijleveld8047]

Love the teddy bear

[@eclecticapoetica]

Thanks

[@TheoryPhilosophy]

Thank YOU!

[@Bellaaaa698]

Thank you so much for this video!!, it help me a lot with my history essay

[@norhabibara9418]

I dont actually understand. You talk too much

[@dominique-valois]

Non-native speaker of English?

[@bellhooked8242]

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