Inventing nations : justifications of authority in the modern world
Pickett examines the causes of the unprecedented escalation of conflict and violence in our age and links them to the major justifications for authority in the modern world. The author focuses on Germany as an exemplary case study of the development of nationalism.
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Cacophonies of Meaning: Paradox and Authority Ethnogenesis: The Emergence of a New Political Authority The World That Modernity Spurned J. W. Goethe and the Rise of the New Plebeian Ideal Strange Bedfellows in a New, Plebeian Romance The Marriage of Nation and State Jahn's Ethnogeny and the Sacralization of Germanhood The Liberal as Ambivalent Nationalist The Liberal Welcomes Socialism into the Family The American As Socialist: Albert Brisbane Conclusion: Wandering in the Syntax of Progession Selected Bibliography Index