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What Is a Nation? and Other Political Writings

By: Ernest Renan

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What Is a Nation? and Other Political Writings

By: Ernest Renan

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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On the Nation and the Jewish People

By: Ernest Renan,Shlomo Sand

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On the Nation and the Jewish People

By: Ernest Renan,Shlomo Sand

Ernest Renan was one of the intellectual giants of the second half of the nineteenth century in France, the man who first opened up the study of nationalism. In this book, Shlomo Sand, the author of the best-selling The Invention of the Jewish People, demonstrates the complexity of Renan's thought. Sand shows the relationship of Renan's work to that of key twentieth-century thinkers on nationalism, such as Raymond Aron and Ernest Gellner, and argues for the continued importance of studying Renan. Alongside his essay, Sand presents two classic lectures by Renan: the first, the renowned "What Is a Nation?", argues that nations are not based upon race, religion, and language; in the second he uses historical evidence to show that the Jews cannot be considered a "pure ethnos." On the Nation and the Jewish People is an important contribution to the understanding of nationalism, bringing back into play the work of a profoundly misunderstood thinker.

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La reforme intellectuelle et morale

By: Ernest Renan

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La reforme intellectuelle et morale

By: Ernest Renan

This book contains an edited version of the French text of Ernest Renan's 1871 work La réforme intellectuelle et morale.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107486920

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What Is a Nation? and Other Political Writings

By: Ernest Renan

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On the Nation and the Jewish People

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RECOLLECTIONS & LETTERS OF ERN

By: Ernest 1823-1892 Renan,Isabel Florence 1850-1928 Hapgood, Tr

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RECOLLECTIONS & LETTERS OF ERN

By: Ernest 1823-1892 Renan,Isabel Florence 1850-1928 Hapgood, Tr

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