Anderson is best known for his 1983 book "Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism," whose controversial thesis is that nationalism is largely a modern concept rooted ...

Benedict Anderson, who died yesterday at age 79 in Malang, Indonesia, is internationally famous for his 1983 book Imagined Communities, far and away the most influential study of nationalism. Unlike ...

Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities (1983) explores the origins of nationalism. It is based on the late political scientist’s observation that any community beyond people who actually know each ...

You know what you are doing to this newspaper; you are reading it. But do you know what this newspaper is doing to you? Southeast Asia scholar Benedict Anderson argued that reading a newspaper was not ...

“I propose the following definition of the nation: it is an imagined political community. . . in the minds of each lives the image of their communion,” Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities. We live ...

In “Thinking the Nation,” Max Bergholz offers a reappraisal of Benedict Anderson’s seminal 1983 book Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. He does so through the ...