Yavuz’s Reviews > Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism > Status Update
Yavuz
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Most interesting subject, at least for me. The way nationalism has dominated the brains of the living for the past few centuries has been an utmost curiosity for me. Although it has started of with great foot, Anderson is too focused on trying to understand the way people thought back then. But i find this aproach counterintuitive. We read the past to understand the present, not to understand the past.
— Jan 13, 2022 08:08AM
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Yavuz
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I'm going to finish this one but not entirely enjoyed the narrative. The somewhat random insights which were placed here and there were adequate to leave some sort of satisfaction but they were not enought to offer me a new perspective. However, his inclusion of exogenous events was a nice follow-up to Hirschman's narrative of emergence of capitalism and my the new perspectives I'm developping regarding history.
— Feb 16, 2022 08:57AM
