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Romantic cultural nationalism where culture precedes individuals and the nation exists to protect a people's inherited culture.
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German nationalism
Romantic cultural nationalism where culture precedes individuals and the nation exists to protect a people's inherited culture.
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He contrasts Rousseau's liberty-centered nationalism with Fichte's language-centered nationalism, where language binds people to the past and makes race, nation, and blood worth fighting for.
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German nationalism begins as a Romantic response to French domination: culture creates the people, and the people must protect, enhance, and spread that culture through the nation-state.
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French, American, and British nationalism define the nation as protecting individual rights, while German Romantic nationalism defines the nation as protecting culture already carried in the blood.
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Napoleon's conquest and replacement of the Holy Roman Empire with the Confederation of the Rhine humiliated German intellectuals and pushed them to invent a German national identity.
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Jiang presents Ernst Arndt as a father of German nationalism because Arndt turns hatred of the French, freedom, and fatherland into religious objects of German unity.
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He contrasts the French response to the Jewish question with the German response, which he identifies with the Holocaust.
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"...Fette. Who is considered the father of Germany. The father of German nationalism. And his argument is that it is language that binds us..."
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"...and the people's response was to create their own form of nationalism but in response to French nationalism okay so now they're being influenced..."
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"...as well okay so these are two extremely different interpretations of nationalism in the French interpretation which is also supported by the Americans and..."
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"It's one of the fundamental ideas of the French Republic. And that's why in today, there's so much antagonism between Islamists and the government...."
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"Because the empire in their minds existed for a thousand years. Okay? Ever since Charlemagne. And the Holy Roman Empire is direct here to..."
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"...whom you pray. All right? So he's considered the father of German nationalism, because he's presenting this idea that we Germans must exist in..."
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"And the answer is, it has to do with the French identity. At this point in history, there's this huge conflict between French liberals..."
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"So these are two different conceptions of nationalism, the French and the German. Any questions before I move on? Is this clear? Great. So..."
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"...Romanism, because the Enlightenment is what's going to drive the French nationalism, and Romanism is what's going to drive German nationalism. Okay? It's science..."
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"All right. So main difference between French nationalism and German nationalism. Okay? Separation of church and state. For the Germans, the nation is the..."
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A source-grounded reading of the nation-state as war machine: Rousseau turns liberty into sovereignty, Fichte turns language into blood, Bismarck turns welfare into war infrastructure, Mussolini turns myth into death, and 21st-century war turns...
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