Talk:Imagined Communities

tendentious
The first word in the title reveals it to be a tendentious anti-nationalist book. The summary confirms it. There is some thinly-veiled editorializing masquerading as objective scholarship, just like most of the humanities these days. 2600:8801:0:1530:B479:48D0:6B69:DDE9 (talk) 05:23, 7 February 2017 (UTC)


 * Judging a book by its title might be a little better than judging it by its cover, but apparently not by much. First, Anderson holds that all communities beyond simple village life are imagined. Whatever sort of nationalist you are, whatever nation you understand yourself to be part of, you necessarily must imagine the great majority of the members of your community, as you will never meet them. That doesn't mean they're imaginary. Secondly, Anderson is trying to explain a historical phenomenon: the rise of nationalisms. I don't know that Anderson would have disavowed the label "anti-nationalist", but anti-nationalism is not inherent in the book's arguments. I'll warrant that you'd find plenty in the book itself to raise your hackles, but none of what might actually bother you has anything to do with a presumptuous & intellectually slovenly misinterpretation of the title. Pathawi (talk) 02:17, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

Is it though?
In the first section of the article it is said that: " [Imagined Communities] is among the top 10 most-cited publications in the social sciences". This claim is backed up by referencing The Top 100 Papers: Nature explores the most-cited research of all time. However, Imagined Communities doesn't appear in the article. Ilanitos (talk) 13:08, 7 December 2022 (UTC)