...and, if under God, directly so. The gage and emblem of this freedom is the sovereign state. Finally, it is imagined as a community, because, regardless...always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship. Ultimately it is this fraternity that makes it possible, over the past two centuries, for so many millions...

...the largest of them [...] has finite, if elastic, boundaries, beyond which lie other nations", and it is imagined as a community, because "regardless...always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship." 14 However, Anderson reverts to structuralism to explain this creative achievement by pointing to several...

...face-to-face contact (and perhaps even these) are imagined' (Anderson 1991: 6). At the same time, the nation is 'imagined as a community because, regardless of...always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship' (Anderson 1991 : 7, emphasis original). While the relationships that are often invoked as analogies...

...because even the largest of them has finite, if elastic boundaries, beyond which lie other nations . . . imagined as a community, because regardless of the...the nation is always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship.56 National identity can be similarly conceived as 'imagined'; it provides an 'imaginary...

...community. For Benedict Anderson, for instance, one of the reasons why nations are 'imagined communities' is because 'regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation...always conceived as a deep horizontal comradeship' (1983: 16). Yet, given that inequality within a nation is obviously visible and is the subject of internal...

...the weakness of certain claims to national community. Benedict Anderson has famously suggested that 'regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation...always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship' (Anderson 1983: 7). Anderson claims that it is this comradeship that enables people not so much to...

...political community — and imagined as both inherently limited and inherently sovereign . . . [Rlegardless of the actual inequality and exploitation that may...always conceived as a deep. horizontal comradeship."' This fiction or fantasy of the nation as an imagined community fuels both pedagogical models. however...

...the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. Finally, the nation is a "community," because despite "the actual inequality and exploitation that may prevail...always conceived as a deep horizontal comradeship.' To understand the origin and spread of nationalism, Anderson suggests that it should be aligned to...

...prejudices, the medieval cultural fabric was woven of many threads. As Benedict Anderson has suggested, "regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation that may prevail in each [nation], the nation is always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship."33 In the Alfonsine text...

...Cultural Studies The nation is imagined as limited. . . . It is imagined as sovereign. . . . Finally, it is imagined as a community, because, regardless...always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities The idea of "the public sphere" in Habermas' sense . ....