Original scientific paper
CONTEMPORANEITY OF PLESSNER’S THEORY OF THE BELATED NATION
Ivan Prpić
; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Plessner’s study The Belated Nation is very topical for Croatian readers since it (via comparing the constitution of the French and the German national community) shows how different types of polities within which national communities are formed (the state and the Reich) are central for the constitution of national awareness. German history proves how international community, primarily Europe, immediately upon its constitution as a system of national states, forced the “belated” nations to give up on the concept of empire and constitute themselves as national states. Plessner’s book is also topical in the post-communist regimes because it superbly proves the significance of both the process of modernisation and bourgeoisie as the social class in building national states.
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33558
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Publication date:
3.3.1998.
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