“Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness: it invents nations where they do not exist.”
Ernest Gellner“Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness: it invents nations where they do not exist.”
Ernest Gellner“It is precisely by binding things together that traditional visions perpetuate themselves and the prejudgments contained within them”
and it is by insisting on prising things apart that we have liberated ourselves from them