My point of departure is that nationality, or, as one might prefer to pt it in view of that world's multiple significations, nation-ness, as wel as nationalism, is a cultural artefact of a particular kind. ..... With a certain ferocity Gellner makes a point when he rules that "Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness: it invents natiosn where they do not exist."
――横浜市立大学(商学部) B日程(3月5日実施)――95年