... that when all the fine-spun analysis is concluded this will be the ultimate statement as well. To advance beyond it, it is necessary to attempt to take the nation apart and to isolate for separate examination the forces and elements which appear to... Problems of Communism - Page 41974Full view - About this book
| Harold Robert Isaacs - 1989 - 260 pages
...this will be the ultimate statement as well." We cannot ever really be certain what it is that makes "the existence of a singularly important national...distinguished from all others who make up an alien 'they.' "7 As state of mind, shared consciousness, or other version of Renan's "soul" or "spiritual principle"... | |
| Mark T. Berger, Douglas A. Borer - 1997 - 326 pages
...most influential in bringing about the sense of common identity which lies at its roots, the sense of existence of a singularly important national 'we'...the parts which are susceptible of cold and rational analysis.31 Of course Emerson described a world which existed fifty years ago. However, his use of... | |
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