Sublime

it invents nations where they do not exist.’

Benedict Anderson, author of Imagined Communities,

centuries.

since World War II every successful revolution has defined itself in national terms

merit of traditional religious world-views

convergence of capitalism and print technology on the fatal diversity of human language created the possibility of a new form of imagined community, which in its basic morphology set the stage for the modern nation.

change in the character of Latin itself.

territorialization of faiths which foreshadows the language of many nationalists (‘our’ nation is ‘the best’ – in a competitive, comparative field).