...nationalism as an "imagined community"—the state as nation and the nation as community—"imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never...minds of each lives the image of their communion" (1983: 15). Anderson continues: "all communities larger that primordial villages of face-to-face contact...

...perceived realities but as parr of the individual's cultural or political imagination, if only because "the members of even the smallest nation will never...fellow-members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the mind of each lives the image of their community."4 All the essays in this volume have been attempts...

...of the nation as an imagined political community whose totality can never be experienced concretely: "The members of even the smallest nation will never...minds of each lives the image of their communion" (15). In fact, Anderson argues, all human communities tend to be imagined entities. Communities differ,...

...political community- and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign. It is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never...yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion.9 Renan referred to this imagining in his suavely back-handed way when he wrote that 'Or...

...invented, as opposed to fabricated and dissimulated) "because the members of even the smallest nations will never know most of their fellow-members, meet...minds of each lives the image of their communion." The definition usefully corrects the positivist conception of national identity as a product of "nation...

...are "imagined communities," in Benedict Anderson's suggestive term. "Imagined," because the fellow members of even the smallest nation will never know...minds of each lives the image of their communion. . . . Communities are to be distinguished, not by their falsity or genuineness, but in the style in...

...in the sense, expounded by Benedict Anderson, that a nation 'is imagined because the members even of the smallest nation will never know most of their...minds of each lives the image of their communion'. Other kinds of loyalty can be directly located - a ruler can be seen, hearth and home directly experienced,...

...attempts at essentializing it. Anderson sees the nation as an imaginary concept: It is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never...minds of each lives the image of their communion. (14) Anderson goes on to point out that "all communities larger than primordial villages of face-to-face...

...1983. He refers to nations or nationalities as "imagined communities". They are "... imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never...minds of each lives the image of their communion." (p. 15). 15. The documents are not yet officially available in printed form. Page references are to...

...political community — and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign. ... It is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never...yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion."13 In his study of nationalism, Anderson goes on to show the importance of "print communities...