What Is a Nation? and Other Political Writings

by Ernest Renan

Ernest Renan was one of the leading lights of the Parisian intellectual scene in the second half of the nineteenth century. A philologist, historian, and biblical scholar, he was a prominent voice of French liberalism and secularism. Today most familiar in the English-speaking world for his 1882 lecture "What Is a Nation?" and its definition of a nation as an "everyday plebiscite," Renan was a major figure in the debates surrounding the Franco-Prussian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231174306
• ISBN13: 9780231174305
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"