![]() ![]() The popularity of the book on nationalism reflected, it is now clear the resurgence of interest in the topic on a worldwide scale. ![]() Somewhat to his surprise, this was his bestselling and most translated book, more so than the fullest exposition of his philosophical position (Legitimation of Belief, Cambridge University Press, 1975) or his overview of human history (Plough, Sword and Book, Collins Harvill, 1988). He later reworked his theory and expanded it to book length as Nations and Nationalism (Blackwell, 1983). He was stimulated to work out a theory, as he records here, by his encounter with Elie Kedourie, one of his colleagues at the LSE, and Kedourie’s book Nationalism (first edition, i960). The earliest version of my father’s theory of nationalism appeared as chapter 7 of Thought and Change (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1964). Of the two, Nationalism was the more nearly finished it was only necessary to add missing quotations and references, correct various typographical errors, and smooth out a few stylistic problems. One you now hold in your hands the final version was dated 25 August The other will be published as Language and Solitude: Wittgenstein, Malinowski and the Habsburg Dilemma. ![]() In the summer of 1995, just months before his death, my father was working on two books. ![]()
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