The Spectre of Comparisons

本尼迪克特•安德森，1953年进入剑桥大学主修西方古典研究和英法文学。1958年赴美国的康乃尔大学专攻印尼研究。1983年发表民族主义研究经典之作：《想象的共同体——民族主义的起源与散布》。

出版者:Verso

作者:Benedict Anderson

页数:386

出版时间:1998-9-17

价格:USD 29.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9781859841846

图书标签:东南亚NationalismBenedictAnderson比较政治民族主义政史法哲人文社科SP'14

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How nationalism has shaped the political and cultural landscape of Southeast Asia.

“‘Come, let us build a Third Kingdom, and in this Third Reich, hey, sisters, you will live happily; hey, brothers, you will live happily; hey, kids, you will live happily; hey, you German patriots, you will see Germany sitting enthroned above all the peoples in this world.’ How clever Hitler was, brothers and sisters, in depicting these ideals!”

Thus the late President Sukarno of Indonesia, an anti-colonial leader, in a public speech while accepting an honorary degree, and viewing Europe and its history through an inverted telescope, as Europeans often regard other parts of the globe. Strange shifts in perspective can take place when Berlin is viewed from Jakarta, or when complex histories of colonial domination strand what counts as the founding work of a national culture in a language its people no longer read. The “spectre of comparisons” arises as nations stir into self awareness, matching themselves against others, and becoming whole through the exercise of the imagination.

In this series of profound and eloquent essays, Benedict Anderson, best known for his classic book on nationalism, Imagined Communities, explores these effects as they work their way through politics and culture. Spanning broad accounts of the development of nationalism and identity, and detailed studies of Southeast Asia, the book includes pieces on East Timor, where every Indonesian attempt to suppress national feeling has had the opposite effect; on the Philippines, where it is said that some horses eat better than stable-hands; on Thailand, where so much money can be made in elected posts that candidates regularly kill to get them; on the Filipino nationalist and novelist José Rizal for whom “we mortals are like turtles—we have value and are classified according to our shells;” and a remarkable essay on Mario Vargas Llosa, detailing the fate of indigenous minorities at the hands of the modern state.

While The Spectre of Comparisons is an indispensable resource for those interested in Southeast Asia, Anderson also takes up the large issues of the universal grammars of nationalism and ethnicity, the peculiarity of nationalist imagery as replicas without originals, and the mutations of nationalism in an age of mass global migrations and instant electronic communications.

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Long-distance nationalism

Long-distance nationalism

sadly I am haunted by this spectre of comparisons as well

Long-distance nationalism

sadly I am haunted by this spectre of comparisons as well