Part 1 Orders and borders: prolegomena - nation-states, nationalism, and national identity in Europe - developing the theoretical matrix; national allegory 1 - self and other - the organic paradigm of nations; national allegory 2 - the image of the other as a sign of identity; national allegory 3 - political symbols - between national identity and political culture; national culture and national identity - models of cleavage and convergence; Euro-nationalism 1 - national identity and mentalities of war in three countries; Euro-nationalism 2 - national identity and European integration in three countries; Euro-nationalism 3 - the state of sovereignty of Europe. Part 2 The microscopic vision - personalized cosmologies and intercultural images: on the mental archaeology of nationalism; national identity in the mirror of World War 2; imagining nationalities - Denmark, Germany, Britain; imagining the European other; imagining Europe; imagining the Significant Other - America; imagine nations - condensations, syntheses, perspectives; the maturing of nationalism - new configurations of self and other.
