Giuseppe Mazzini and the Religion of the Nation

Sullam, Simon Levis

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“…Anthony D. Smith also considers Mazzini one of the nationalists who defied the principles of German Romanticism so popular in his era. Smith regards him as someone who saw “political action and the mobilization of the people” as more essential than the so-called objective factors determining the essence as well as the fate of the nation – like geography, history, ethnic descent, language, and religion – “if the nation was to be ‘reawakened’ ” (Smith 1998, 11).…”

Section: “The Specter Of Mazzinian Republicanism”: Moving Beyond the ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Still Enlightened “Late-Comers”: A Comparison between the Proto-Modernist Nationalisms of Guiseppe Mazzini and Ziya Gökalp

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Kolasi

2022

Nationalities Papers

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In contrast with the distorted and romanticized images reproduced by far-right narratives, we argue in this study that the constructive ideals of “nation” held by Italy’s Giuseppe Mazzini and Turkey’s Ziya Gökalp, from two later examples of European nationalism, could fit into what might be called a “proto-modernism” within nationalism theories. It is proposed that both Mazzini and Gökalp went through ideological transformations that made them firm opponents of German Romanticism and ardent believers of the Enlightenment, as shown in their non-exclusionary approaches to nationalism. They both rejected essentialist (religious, ethnic, racial, etc.) rationales for the backwardness of their respective countries and maintained the necessity of constructing nations that would initially provide civic equality among citizens and then aim at normative equality among nations at the civilizational level. In that sense, our analysis finds four fundamental similarities between Mazzini and Gökalp with regard to their national ideals: loyalty to the principles of the Enlightenment, national self-determination, civic-legal equality among citizens, and normative equality among all nations.

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Section: “The Specter Of Mazzinian Republicanism”: Moving Beyond the ...mentioning

confidence: 99%