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Benedict R.O'G. Anderson

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August 26, 1936 in Kunming, China

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Average rating: 3.98 · 1,053 ratings · 88 reviews · 26 distinct works

	Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism 4.03 avg rating — 1,936 ratings — published 1983 — 20 editions	My rating:
	Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination 3.76 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Language and Power: Exploring Political Cultures in Indonesia 4.00 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1990 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia, and the World 3.79 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Mythology and the Tolerance of the Javanese 3.30 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1970 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Java in a Time of Revolution: Occupation and Resistance, 1944-1946 3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1972 — 3 editions	My rating:
	A Preliminary Analysis of the October 1, 1965, Coup in Indonesia (Prepared in Jan. 1966) by Benedict R.O'G. Anderson, Ruth T. McVey 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1971 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Debating World Literature by Benedict R.O'G. Anderson, Christopher Prendergast (Editor), Emily Apter (Contribution by) 2.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Some Aspects of Indonesian Politics Under the Japanese Occupation: 1944-1945 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009	My rating:
	Violence and the State in Suharto's Indonesia 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2000	My rating:

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Studies on Southeast Asia (1 book)
by Benedict R.O'G. Anderson (Editor)

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“ I propose the following definition of the nation: it is an imagined political community-and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign. It is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion.... Communities are to be distinguished, not by their falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined.... Finally, [the nation] is imagined as a community, because, regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation that may prevail in each, the nation is conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship. Ultimately, it is this fraternity that makes it possible, over the past two centuries for so many millions of people, not so much to kill, as willing to die for such limited imaginings.”
― Benedict R.O'G. Anderson

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“the fellow members of even the smallese nation will never know most of their fellow members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of the communion...Communities are to be distinguished, not by their falsity or genuineness, but in the style in which they are imagined.”
― Benedict R.O'G. Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

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