Signs of Nations
Political Semiotics of Self and Other in Contemporary European Nationalism
Published on 15. December 1995
Book
Hardback
716 pages
978-1-85521-669-3 (ISBN)
Description
Focally situated within the perspective of cultural analysis and semiotics, this text draws on this variety of background in an attempt to uncover a conceptual whole that may shed light on nationalism.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
references, index
Dimensions
Height: 165 mm
Width: 226 mm
Weight
1050 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85521-669-3 (9781855216693)
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Content
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.