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What Is a Nation? and Other Political Writings (Hardcover)
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What Is a Nation? and Other Political Writings (Hardcover)
Series: Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political History
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Ernest Renan was one of the leading lights of the Parisian
intellectual scene in the second half of the nineteenth century. A
philologist, historian, and biblical scholar, he was a prominent
voice of French liberalism and secularism. Today most familiar in
the English-speaking world for his 1882 lecture “What Is a
Nation?” and its definition of a nation as an “everyday
plebiscite,” Renan was a major figure in the debates surrounding
the Franco-Prussian War, the Paris Commune, and the birth of the
Third Republic and had a profound influence on thinkers across the
political spectrum who grappled with the problem of authority and
social organization in the new world wrought by the forces of
modernization. What Is a Nation? and Other Political Writings is
the first English-language anthology of Renan’s political
thought. Offering a broad selection of Renan’s writings from
several periods of his public life, most previously untranslated,
it restores Renan to his place as one of France’s major liberal
thinkers and gives vital critical context to his views on
nationalism. The anthology illuminates the characteristics that
distinguished nineteenth-century French liberalism from its English
and American counterparts as well as the more controversial parts
of Renan’s legacy, including his analysis of colonial expansion,
his views on Islam and Judaism, and the role of race in his
thought. The volume contains a critical introduction to Renan’s
life and work as well as detailed annotations that assist in
recovering the wealth and complexity of his thought.
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