This article reviews how major theorists of nationalism – from Ernest Renan to Benedict Anderson – have tried to come to grips with the puzzle that Swiss nationalism and the Swiss state present in view of the monoethnic states that surround it. I will argue that this puzzle disappears when assuming a political sociology perspective that highlights the networks of political alliances underlying ...

this research intents to /explain the theory and practice of fascism in . italy an germany, and so it tries to recognise the ideology of classical fascism. studing the historical grounds of emerging of fascism, it explains the raising ideology of fascism in nature, resouce and contents of thought, and by looking to foundations of classical fascism's ideology, it studies natural history of ...

The simultaneous processes of globalisation and European integration have rekindled the interest in the role of the nation state. But this debate is an ongoing one, as participants cannot agree whether this will result in the “erosion”, “decline” or even “the end” of the nation state, or, quite to the contrary, in its“revival”because of“new tasks” for it, exposing ideas about the “powerless sta...

If we accept this idea that in talking about art, there is a chasm between thought and unthought debating on art theory in the sociohistorical context of after revolutionary Iran requires at least two items in which understanding and creating art meet one another: 1) Art as door separates intelligible from sensible, rational from irrational, and logos from pathos as well and 2) Art as brid...