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  1. Do nations have navels'?: Gellner and Smith on the emergence of nations.Milan Subotic - 2004 - Filozofija I Društvo 2004 (25):177-210.
    This paper interprets and analyzes the debate having taken place in 1995 between E. Gellner and A. Smith concerning the problem of the emergence of nations. This discussion is used as an example to show the basic general features of two approaches in theories of nationalism - the modernist and the ethno symbolic ones. Pointing to the common assumptions shared by Gellner's and Smith's theories of nations, the author interprets ethno-symbolism as a sort of internal self-criticism of the modernist standpoint. (...)
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  • Cultural versus Contractual Nations: Rethinking Their Opposition.Brian C. J. Singer - 1996 - History and Theory 35 (3):309-337.
    This paper begins with the opposition common to almost all discussions of the nation and nationalism: that between the cultural and the civic nation. Behind this opposition, however, one can detect a certain "complicity" between the two conceptions. And in order to understand the nature of this complicity, the paper proposes to re-examine the origins of the modern nation during the French Revolution. The first nation, it is argued, was conceived in strictly contractual terms; and yet within only a few (...)
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  • Nationalism and aggression.Liah Greenfeld & Daniel Chirot - 1994 - Theory and Society 23 (1):79-130.
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