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" Two men are of the same nation if and only if they share the same culture, where culture in turn means a system of ideas and signs and associations and ways of behaving and communicating. "
The Beginnings of Jewishness: Boundaries, Varieties, Uncertainties - Page 7
by Shaye J. D. Cohen - 1999 - 458 pages
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Philosophical Perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Tomis Kapitan - Philosophy - 1997 - 400 pages
...of demarcation, as a means of imagining members of the nation. Hence, as Gellner rightly suggests: Two men are of the same nation if and only if they...and signs and associations and ways of behaving and communicating.31 But culture does not function only as a means of recognition, or else it could be...
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International Business: An Emerging Vision, Volume 1

Brian Toyne, Douglas William Nigh - Business & Economics - 1997 - 728 pages
...turn means a system of ideas and signs and associations and ways of behaving and communicating. 2. Two men are of the same nation if and only if they recognize each other as belonging to the same nation. In other words, nations make the man; nations...
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The One and the Many: America's Struggle for the Common Good

Martin E. Marty - Political Science - 1997 - 262 pages
...turn means a system of ideas and signs and associations and ways of behaving and communicating. 2. Two men are of the same nation if and only if they recognize each other as belonging to the same nation. In other words, nations maketh man; nations are...
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Philosophical Perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Tomis Kapitan - Philosophy - 1997 - 400 pages
...to recognize each other, as well as exclude nonmembers, is essential for the formation of a nation: Two men are of the same nation if and only if they recognize each other as belonging to the same nation. In other words, nation marketh men; nations are...
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Creating Boundaries: The Politics of Race and Nation

Kathryn A. Manzo - Business & Economics - 1996 - 268 pages
...frequently recurring element of nationhood cited is a common culture; as Gellner has expressed it, "Two men are of the same nation if and only if they share the same culture." 23 After that comes shared time (usually historical or ancestral ties and myths but also "homogeneous,...
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Politics of Culture: A Study of Three Kirata Communities in the Eastern ...

Tanka Bahadur Subba - History - 1999 - 172 pages
...though he is equally aware of the 'voluntaristic' aspect of the concept of nation. According to him, 'Two men are of the same nation if and only if they...associations and ways of behaving and communicating" (1987:7). culture'. Its relationship with the nationalist ideology is, according to Richard Fox, "contingent...
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The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture

David T. Gies - Art - 1999 - 372 pages
...historical-political reasons for the invention of cultures. It is understood, then, that people belong to the same nation if and only if they share the same...associations and ways of behaving and communicating. In other words, nations are the artifacts of a people's convictions and loyalties and solidarities....
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Colonial Writing and the New World, 1583-1671: Allegories of Desire

Thomas Scanlan - Drama - 1999 - 268 pages
...turn means a system of ideas and signs and associations and ways of behaving and communicating. 2. Two men are of the same nation if and only if they recognize each other as belonging to the same nation. In other words, nations maketh man; nations are...
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Cinema and Nation

Mette Hjort, Scott MacKenzie - Performing Arts - 2000 - 332 pages
...Discussion of two very makeshift temporary definitions will help to pinpoint this elusive concept: 1 . Two men are of the same nation if and only if they...associations and ways of behaving and communicating. 2. Two men are of the same nation if and only if they recognise each other as belonging to the same...
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Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict: Philosophical Perspectives

Nenad Miščević - Philosophy - 2000 - 356 pages
...behavior, language, norms, myths and symbols that enable mutual recognition. Consequently, two people are of the same nation if, and only if, they share the same culture."7 For Tamir, culture is the glue that holds nations together.8 There are problems with this...
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