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In Jiang's ancient context, a loose and fluid political affiliation, not the fixed modern nation-state identity.
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In Jiang's ancient context, a loose and fluid political affiliation, not the fixed modern nation-state identity.
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Jiang reads Sidonia's indifference to creed, country, class, and character as an anti-national intellectual cosmopolitanism associated with anti-Semitic tropes.
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Jiang defines the state as supreme executive authority sovereign over a territory and the nation as a people with shared identity through language, culture, history, or ethnicity.
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The Jewish question tests nation-state logic because Jews possess shared text, language, culture, and history while remaining a stateless nation within other nations.
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Fascism treats the nation as an eternal struggle of the fittest where unity, belief, and war can make even a weak nation invincible.
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The French Revolution transplants religious loyalty into the nation, making people willing to die for national ideas and helping explain later mass wars.
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Jiang says ancient identity was loose and fluid, so Israel is a literary creation and Israelite identity is a political creation rather than a fixed ethnic or racial identity.
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Jiang defines a nation as a fiction or narrative that everyone believes in, and says America's unifying narratives are breaking down.
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"The only human quality that interested Sidonia was intellect. He cared not whence it came, where it was to be found, creed, country, class,..."
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"...very anti -Semitic trope. Where Jews don't like the idea of nation, or culture, or religion. They like the idea of ideas, okay? And..."
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"...classes. The first class we are doing today is on the nation -state. Next Tuesday we will do the Soviet Union and then the..."
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"...nationalism. Okay? Separation of church and state. For the Germans, the nation is the church. The French believe in the general will. What's in..."
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"...Right? So how do you deal with a people in your nation that are explicitly not part of your culture? And they're very adamant..."
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"...we subordinate everything else. Okay? Fascism is the belief that the nation, the people is in an eternal struggle of the fittest. Okay? It..."
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"...die for religion. They also die for ideas, which include the nation. Right? The nation state. Because all that, because what you will learn..."
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"Our ideas of religion become transplanted into the nation. Okay? So people will also die for the nation. That's why you have these incredibly..."
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"...Does that make sense? Also, guys, when I use the word nation, I have to warn you, this is not the modern sense. Nation,..."
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"Today, the nation state, you're Chinese, you're stuck being Chinese. Okay? But back then, if you're an Israelite, guess what? You could walk across..."
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"...problem. Second problem is the breakdown of narratives, okay? So, a nation is a fiction, a narrative that everyone believes in. And there are..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on transnational capital, British sea empire, Frankist revolutionary theology, Disraeli’s Coningsby, Bolshevism, Marx, Bakunin, and Freud: modernity appears as a machine that hides capital, displays a scapegoat, turns...
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The French Revolution is not introduced as politics first.
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central argument: the Hebrew Bible becomes world-shaping not because it records early history, but because David's political project finds a poet-god, a poet-king, and a Yahwist whose few...
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A June 2024 lecture arguing that the next American civil war will not repeat 1861.
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