The nobiliary reaction redefined nationhood as relations of war between peoples
Evidence
It is not the king who constitutes the nation; a nation acquires a king for the specific purpose of fighting other nations. And the history written by the nobihary reaction made those relations the web of historical intelligibility. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 233
Categorization
- DEFINE: Captures the counter-absolutist, race/war-based definition of the nation that grounds Foucault’s ‘war of races’ thesis.
Related
- The nation emerges as a new subject of history distinct from the State (similarity 0.80)
- Boulainvilliers founded history as the study of nations rather than kings (similarity 0.79)
- National dualism narratives trace back to aristocratic resistance to absolutism (similarity 0.79)
- Conquest by a nation either awakens conquered nationalism or degenerates into tyranny (similarity 0.78)