Benedict Anderson (1936–2015)
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Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson was born in Kunming, China on August 26, 1936. He received a degree in classics from Cambridge University in 1957 and a Ph.D. in government from Cornell University in 1967. He taught at Cornell University until his retirement, as an emeritus professor of mehr anzeigen international studies, in 2002. His best-known book, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, was first published in 1983. He died of heart failure on December 12, 2015 at the age of 79. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
Werke von Benedict Anderson
Language and Power: Exploring Political Cultures in Indonesia (Cornell Studies in Political Economy) (1990) 44 Exemplare
A Preliminary Analysis of the October 1, 1965, Coup in Indonesia (Prepared in Jan. 1966) (1971) 10 Exemplare
Why Counting Counts: A Study of Forms of Consciousness and Problems of Language in Noli Me Tangere and El… (2009) 6 Exemplare
Exploration and Irony in Studies of Siam over Forty Years (Studies on Southeast Asia) (2014) 2 Exemplare
KOMUNITETE IMAGJINARE 1 Exemplar
Notes on Indonesian political communication 1 Exemplar
Forestillede fællesskaber 1 Exemplar
Verbeelde gemeenschappen. Bespiegelingen over de oorspring en de verspreiding van het nationalisme 1 Exemplar
越境を生きる ベネディクト・アンダーソン回想録 1 Exemplar
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The Anthropology of Politics: A Reader in Ethnography, Theory, and Critique (2002) — Mitwirkender — 33 Exemplare
The Ethnicity Reader: Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Migration (1997) — Mitwirkender — 23 Exemplare
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- Anderson, Benedict
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Anderson, Benedict Richard O'Gorman
- Geburtstag
- 1936-08-26
- Todestag
- 2015-12-13
- Geschlecht
- male
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- Kunming, Yunnan Province, China
- Sterbeort
- Batu, Indonesia
- Todesursache
- heart failure
- Wohnorte
- China
California, USA
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Ithaca, New York, USA
Cambridge, England, UK - Ausbildung
- Cambridge University (BA|1957 ∙ Classics)
Cornell University (PhD|1967)
Eton College - Berufe
- Politikwissenschaftler
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- Anderson, Perry (Bruder)
- Organisationen
- Cornell University
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- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1994)
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Imagined Communities, first published in 1983, has a Wikipedia entry. A modern retrospective review summarizes Anderson's historical arguments accurately and acknowleges the book as a classic. The reviewer, writing for The New Republic (in 2024 a "progressive" magazine complains that Anderson failed to support the values of 2024 progressives, and suggests Anderson should have challenged the colonial thinking of European and American academic historians more.
Anderson grappled with the role of the printing press in establishing national European languages. He discussed the consequences of social practices in Europe towards Europeans who emigrated to colonized lands, and towards the indigenous colonized peoples as factors that caused social and economic losses and contribued to the growth national ideas. His work concentrates on nationalism in the former Spanish colonies in the Americas, and Southeast Asia (mainly Indonesia), rejecting the Marxist fables that capital and class conflict explain everything, and that nationalism, language and culture are not important.
The book is informative on real facts and real events in the real world.… (mehr)