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event Caglar is an independent researcher, political thinker, and author based in Ottawa, Canada. For more than five decades, he has studied nationalism, democracy, political identity, state formation, and the relationship between freedom and collective life. His work combines political philosophy, history, sociology, and political economy to explore how nations emerge, evolve, and transform over time. What Is a Nation? The Anatomy of Society is the first volume of The Life of Nations, a comprehensive study of nationhood, republicanism, sovereignty, and democratic self-government.
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. The nation is one of the most influential forces in modern history. Wars have been fought in its name, revolutions have been inspired by it, states have been built around it, and millions of people continue to define their identity through it. Yet despite its central place in political life, the nation remains one of the most debated and misunderstood concepts in the social sciences.What Is a Nation? The Anatomy of Society confronts this question directly. Rather than accepting traditional explanations, Levent Caglar undertakes a wide-ranging investigation into the historical, social, economic, cultural, and political foundations of nationhood. The result is a comprehensive examination of how nations emerge, why they persist, and how they continue to shape the modern world.The book challenges two dominant assumptions. First, it rejects the belief that nations are timeless entities rooted in ancient ethnic origins. Second, it rejects the idea that nations are merely imagined or invented political constructions. Instead, it argues that nations are real social formations created through long historical processes involving economic integration, linguistic development, territorial consolidation, cultural interaction, and collective consciousness.Beginning with the social transformations that reshaped Europe between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries, the book explores the impact of the Black Death, the Renaissance, the Reformation, the printing revolution, the Enlightenment, and the emergence of capitalism. These developments gradually dissolved older forms of social organization and created the conditions for the rise of modern nations.The analysis moves beyond historical origins to address some of the most important questions in contemporary political theory. What distinguishes a nation from a state? How do civic nations differ from ethnic nations? What role do language, culture, territory, and economic life play in national development? Why do some national movements promote democracy and self-government while others become vehicles of exclusion and authoritarianism? What is the relationship between sovereignty, citizenship, freedom, and collective identity?Throughout the book, Caglar engages critically with major thinkers including Ernest Renan, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Alexis de Tocqueville, Adam Smith, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Benedict Anderson, Ernest Gellner, Eric Hobsbawm, Anthony D. Smith, Giuseppe Mazzini, and many others. Their insights are examined, challenged, and integrated into a broader framework that seeks to understand the nation as a dynamic and evolving social phenomenon.A central argument of the book is that nations are not static entities. They are living formations that continually adapt to changing economic realities, technological developments, migration patterns, political institutions, and global transformations. Understanding nations therefore requires understanding history itself-not as a sequence of isolated events, but as an ongoing process of social development and human organization.At a time when debates over nationalism, globalization, multiculturalism, citizenship, borders, and sovereignty dominate political discourse across the world, What Is a Nation? provides an intellectually rigorous and historically grounded contribution to one of the defining questions of our age.This volume is the first book in The Life of Nations series and lays the theoretical foundation for subsequent studies of republicanism, democracy, nationalism, sovereignty, civic identity, and the future of political communities. Written for scholars, students, policymakers, and general readers interested in the nature of collective life, it offers a fresh and original perspective on the forces that continue to shape the destiny of nat Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781997912187
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