Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2022
Abstract
The study is focused on what is produced when a nation is (re)produced. It starts after discussion of Rousseau with Carl von Clausewitz, who described a new form of war infused by national solidarity to which both he and Fichte tried to actively contribute.
Then it focuses on the insights of three authors who critically observed their effects and working: István Bibó for "small nations" with existential fears, Julien Benda for analysis of "political passions" in the modern French nation, and Hannah Arendt for her analysis of the inversion of (not only great) nations into empires. What we see in all these cases is that nations produce much more than they promised; to some extent they even produced their own negation.