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The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph
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December 1977

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Albert O. Hirschman

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... First, the 'nation' became the discursive antithesis of the popular individualistic natural law of the Enlightenment, propagating the inalienable rights of each individual and popularizing ideas of a rational social contract (as stated most famously by Rousseau, 1762). Second, in that period of great economic and social transformation around 1700 (Hazard, 1953;Hirschman, 1977), intellectuals introduced the concept of 'patriotism', love of fatherland, which was later applied to the 'nation' as 'nationalism' (Author 1, in press). Accordingly, 'nation' discursively configured the unifying and common characteristics of people in a territory, distinguished them from others, and hence became the basis for the possibility of creating a modern constitutional nation-state of legally equal citizens, who were affectively loyal because they shared something in common 9 : membership in the same nation organized in the constitutional nation-state. ...

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Imagined communities, social stratifications, and educational responses. Conditions of the possibility to talk about differentiation
The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph
  • Citing Book
  • December 1977