...merely its industrial variant. It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round. Admittedly, nationalism uses the pre-existing, historically...invented, quite fictitious pristine purities restored. But this culturally creative, fanciful, positively inventive aspect of nationalist ardour ought not...

...reiterates that "nationalism engenders nations, and not the other way round," he is careful to add that "nationalism uses the pre-existing, historically inherited proliferation of cultures or cultural wealth" and that nations, treated by him as "new units," in fact use "as their raw material the cultural, historical...

...1983e, P «). It follows that It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round. Admittedly, nationalism uses the pre-existing, historically...invented, quite fictitious pristine purities restored. But this culturally creative, fancifuL positively inventive aspect of nationalist ardour ought not...

...l983e, p. 55). It follows that It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round. Admittedly, nationalism uses the pre-existing, historically...often transforms them radically. Dead languages can he revived, traditions invented, quite fictitious pristine purities restored. But this culturally creative,...

...1983b: 551 It follows that It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round. Admittedly, nationalism uses the pre-existing, historically...invented, quite fictitious pristine purities restored. But this culturallv creative, fanciful, positively inventive aspect of nationalist ardour ought not...

...other way round. Admittedly, nationalism uses the pre-existing, historically inherited proliteration of cultures or cultural wealth, though it uses them...invented, quite fictitious pristine purities restored. But this culturally creative, fanciful, positively inventive aspect of nationalist ardour ought not...

...Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (London: Verso, 1983). 9. "Admittedly, nationalism uses the pre-existing, historically...selectively, and it most often transforms them radically." Gellner, Nations and Nationalism, 55. 10. Descriptions of the tradition can be found in Robert T. Anderson...

...of an old, latent, dormant force, though that is how it does indeed present itself'.52 He continued: 'Nationalism uses the pre-existing, historically inherited...cultures or cultural wealth, though it uses them very 50 Gabriel Arias Salgado. Textos de doctrina y politico espanola de la informacion, 6th edn, 3 vols...

...is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round."31 "Admittedly," he concedes, "nationalism uses the preexisting, historically inherited...very selectively, and it most often transforms them radically."32 But, Gellner points out: The great, but valid, paradox is this: nations can be defined...

...recognize the elite's constructed national culture as their own. I agree with Gellner when he writes: 'Admittedly, nationalism uses the pre-existing, historically...selectively, and it most often transforms them radically.' 28 Tom Nairn reinforces this point by arguing: 'The new middle-class intelligentsia of nationalism...