The role of the concept “nation” in consideration of modern Germany’s historical and sociopolitical experience
https://doi.org/10.28995/2073-6355-2018-8-25-46
Abstract
This article aims to highlight the role of the concept “nation” in consideration of modern Germany’s historical and sociopolitical experience. Through the methodology of such research program as Historical semantics and such research program as Conceptual history one can manage to observe how the concept “nation” appears as an implicit or explicit precondition for the major socio-political discussions. In order to study the concept resemantisation in social and political sciences, it is put in context of four major for the modern Germany’s socio-political and historical experience topics: German reunification; globalization; European Union; immigration.
Such a prospective not only makes it possible to discover new meanings acquired by the concept “nation”, but also its crucial binding role. Having the concept nation in focus, one can discover a number of theoretical interconnections of these four seemingly unconnected topics.
About the Author
Alexander N. Yurin
Russian State University for the Humanities
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
postgraduate student;
bld. 6, Miusskaya sq., Moscow, 125993
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Yurin A.N. The role of the concept “nation” in consideration of modern Germany’s historical and sociopolitical experience. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2018;(8):25-46. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2073-6355-2018-8-25-46
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