The Nation – The Social (Re)Formation of the Human Being / Nacija – Društveno preoblikovanje čovjeka
Journal: SOPHOS A Young Researchers’ Journal
Year: 2025

The nation represents a cultural and political division of human communities into distinct identity-based and territorially structured forms. It constitutes an ideologization of human beings and their reality through instruments of state coercion, or alternatively, an almost religious sentiment experienced by human beings who strive for consistency of meaning and order within their spatial and existential relations. This is a process that positions the world within the social dichotomy of “us” v