 | David Rogers, John McLeod - Literary Collections - 2004 - 218 pages
...men are of the same nation if and only if they share the same culture'; and voluntaristic, in which 'two men are of the same nation if and only if they recognize each other as belonging to the same culture'.4 My putative Englishness might be questionable... | |
 | Charles E. Farhadian - Christianity - 2005 - 264 pages
...requires basic shared imaginations. Two particular traits are essential for its success. First, two people "are of the same nation if and only if they share...associations and ways of behaving and communicating" (Gellner 1983: 7). Second, two people "are of the nation if and only if they recognize each other as... | |
 | Thomas Janoski, Robert R. Alford, Alexander M. Hicks, Mildred A. Schwartz - Social Science - 2005 - 844 pages
...consciousness. That is, for Gellner, a nation has a shared culture (he understands "culture" to refer to "a system of ideas and signs and associations and ways of behaving and communicating") and depends on the recognition of its members: "A mere category of persons . . . becomes a nation if... | |
 | Mette Hjort - 331 pages
...helpful at this point to recall the subjective dimension of Ernest Gellner's definition of a nation: "Two men are of the same nation if and only if they recognize each other as belonging to the same nation" (1983, 7). In the context of nationalist sentiment,... | |
 | Hannes Gmelin - Music and globalization - 2006 - 338 pages
...Kulturnation - im Gegensatz zur Staats- und Willensnation (s. Abschnitt 2.1) - Gellner anschließen: „Two men are of the same nation if and only if they share the same culture, [...]." (Gellner 1983, S. 7) Für eine Definition der Nationalkultur kann auf Thomas (2003a) zurückgegriffen... | |
 | Igor Primoratz, Aleksandar Pavković - Philosophy - 2006 - 198 pages
...reality being created by the attachment. Gellner says that one useful definition of a nation is that 'two men are of the same nation if and only if they recognize each other as belonging to the same nation . . . nations are the artefacts of men's convictions... | |
 | Frans Schrijver - Social Science - 2006 - 435 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 recognise each other as belonging to the same nation. In other words, nations maketh man; nations are... | |
 | Gerd Sebald, Michael Popp, Jan Weyand - Cultural relativism - 2006 - 230 pages
...culture that enables mutual recognition, and, consequently, national solidarity. As Gellner insists, "Two men are of the same nation if and only if they recognize each other as belonging to the same nation", and consequently "nations are the artefacts... | |
 | Ernst B. Haas - Philosophy - 1997 - 396 pages
...Delhi's legislation. Culture as Shaper of Identity What is "culture"? It is nothing more mysterious than a "system of ideas and signs and associations and ways of behaving and communicating."14 Normally, the sharing of meanings implied by these activities must be accomplished... | |
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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. 
