The Theory of Nationhood: A Platonic Symposium

by Derek Heater

An innovative and entertaining examination of the theory of nationalism. Derek Heater brings together the seven most influential - for good or evil - European thinkers on nationalism from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. Herder, Fichte, Mazzini, Mill, Renan, Hitler and Stalin together debate their ideas in a platonic symposium, using the words from their own works in the central part of the book. The first part of the book introduces...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349263354
• ISBN13: 9781349263356
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"