Three Encounters with Karl W. Deutsch

• Authors: Miroslav Hroch
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The author approaches the works of Karl W. Deutsch from the position of a historian and presents three aspects of his own encounters with Deutsch’s writings. First, he describes how he applied some of the methodological principles in Deutsch’s concept of nation-building to his own research work. Second, he presents his opinion on the place Deutsch occupies in the evolution of ‘theories of nationalism’. Third, he reflects on how Deutsch’s The Nerves of Government can serve as a source of inspiration in the present day, especially the parts of this work that deal with the risks for the collapse of political systems.

Keywords

nation, nationalism,; history and political science,; social communication,; Karl W. Deutsch

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 48
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 1115–1129

Contributors

author

Miroslav Hroch

• Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, U Kříže 8, 158 00 Prague 5–Jinonice, Czech Republic