Benedict Anderson

Details

Nationality

Anglo-Irish

Classifications

Holder

Communal intergenerational

Source of authority

ObservationReason

Subject

Human centred

Mode of transmission

Text drawing

Knowledge type

Propositional

Epistemic cluster

Western philosophical

Notes

[DRAFT] Anglo-Irish political scientist and historian of Southeast Asia, long at Cornell University. His Imagined Communities (1983) defines the nation as 'an imagined political community — and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign', and argues that print-capitalism and vernacular print media made it possible for dispersed strangers to imagine themselves as a single people.

Connections

• associated with The Nation (as collective)
• articulates Imagined Communities
• proposed Imagined Communities
• influenced Charles Taylor

Sources

1. n.d..
2. n.d..