...Nation?"). Renan isolates common memory and consent as the nation's two fundamental preconditions: A nation is a soul, a spiritual principle. Two things,...heritage that one has received in an undivided form. The nation, like the individual, is the culmination of a long past of endeavours, sacrifice, and devotion....

...1882, wrote about nationalism in a way that is similar in spirit to Fishman. Anderson, and others: "A nation is a soul, a spiritual principle. Two things,...heritage that one has received in an undivided form" (Renan 1990 [1882], 19). 9 Homi Bhabha, for example, sees this combination of modernist rationalism...

...delivered a lecture at the Sorbonne in 1882 in which he defined a nation in this way: other is present day consent, the desire to live together, the will to...heritage that one has received in an undivided form. Man does not improvise. The nation, like the individual, is the culmination of a long past of endeavors,...

...directed by rational reflection or choice. Unlike Ernest Renan, who claimed that communities are built on "consent, the desire to live together, the will to perpetuate the value of the heritage one has received in an undivided form," Bagehot dismisses all conscious activities (consent, will,...

...One is the possession in common of a rich legacy of memories; the other is present-day consent. .. the will to perpetuate the value of the heritage that one has received in an undivided form. Man, Gentlemen, does not improvise. The nation, like the individual, is the culmination of a long past...

...history." Nehru, as we have seen, echoed this vision in his own discovery of India. Renan also spoke of "the desire to live together, the will to perpetuate the value of the heritage one has received," as the animating principle of a nation. Though his views were first expounded more...

...history." Nehru, as we have seen, echoed this vision in his own discovery of India. Renan also spoke of "the desire to live together, the will to perpetuate the value of the heritage one has received," as the animating principle of a nation. Though his views were first expounded more...

...ed. Homi K. Bhabha (London: Routledge, 1990), 8-22. The relevant passage (p. 19) begins as follows: "A nation is a soul, a spiritual principle. Two things,...heritage that one has received in an undivided form." 3. Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism, rev....

..."Narratives of Migration," 196-201. w Ibid., 222. -"'" In the late nineteenth century, Renan posed, "a nation is a soul, a spiritual principle. Two things,...heritage that one has received in an undivided form" (Duara Prasenjit, "Who Imagines What and When," in eds. Geoff Eley and Grigor Suny, Becoming National...

...and natural importance" (Williams 1990, 45). A much earlier analyst of nation, Ernest Renan, wrote: A nation is a soul, a spiritual principle. Two things,...heritage that one has received in an undivided form. (1990, 19) There is a major and productive contradiction between Renan's idea of a common legacy of...