Title: Nationalism and culture /
Authors: Rocker, Rudolf, 1873-1958.
Publisher: Black Rose,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Nationalism; Culture
Abstract: This is a detailed and scholarly study of the development of nationalism and the changes in human cultures from the dawn of history to the present day and an analysis of the relations of these to one another.
Contents: Book one. Preface to the English edition -- Translator's preface -- The insufficiency of economic materialism -- Religion and politics -- The middle ages : church and state -- Power versus culture -- The rise of the national state -- The Reformation and the new state -- Absolutism-an obstacle to economic development -- The doctrine of the social contract -- Liberal ideas in Europe and America -- Liberalism and democracy -- German philosophy and the state -- Democracy and the national state -- Romanticism and nationalism -- Socialism and the state -- Nationalism-a political religion. Book two. The nation as community of morals, custom and interest -- The nation as community of language -- The nation in the light of modern race theories -- Political unity and the evolution of culture -- Political decentralization in Greece -- Roman centralization and its influence -- National unity and the decline of culture -- The national state and the development of science -- Architecture and nationality -- Art and the national spirit -- Social problems of our time -- Epilogue to the second American edition.