BOOK REVIEW Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities.
Imagined Community is Simply a Quality of the Ideal Nation In further disputing the quality of an imagined community as the principal source of definition of a nation, I beg to point out that imagined communities also exist in virtually every sphere of life, sometimes bound within defined geographies, yet that does not make these communities nations.The imagined community populated by people around the world who, recalling the author’s definition, “will never know most of their fellow-members, meet them, or even hear of them” have been endowed with the ability to utilize the most effective resource available for communion of a shared idea, belief or ideology.Benedict Anderson's definition of nation. In Imagined Communities (1983) Anderson argues that the nation is an imagined political community that is inherently limited in scope and sovereign in nature. It is imagined because the actuality of even the smallest nation exceeds what it is possible for a single person to know—one cannot know every person in a nation, just as one cannot know every.
Imagined Communities The concept of nationalism, according to Benedict Anderson, has never been deeply discussed. There has never been a great thinker treating this concept as thoroughly as other concepts. Anderson suggests that one should not think of nationalism as an ideology like “fascism.Imagined Communities was essentially written to describe the national consciousness and nationalism that emerged within the 18th century and spread throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. According to Anderson, nations are imagined as limited, sovereign, and a community.
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