Nemzetek létezése: túl az érdekeken. Érzelmi és értelmi motívumok a nemzeti identitások kialakulásában
Existence of Nations: Beyond Interests. Emotional and Intellectual Motives in the Formation of National Identities

Summary/Abstract: There is a powerful modernist concept on the formation of national identities, according to which the nation, as we know it today, is a modern and constructed phenomenon. It sheds light so vividly on the interest-based and goal-rational homogenization processes constructing mass loyalties and capitalist markets that attention may be lost to possible emotional and intellectual motives of national identities. Yet, the presence of these motives is basically indicated by the partly emotional-based separatism of modern nationalisms and their demand to provide meaningful explanations of the human history. It reveals that permanent interaction between interest-based, emotional and intellectual motives play a crucial role in the formation of the attitude of “nationness” (i.e. belonging to a nation). By scrutinizing the interactions between these three motives, a research framework on nationness can be developed that seeks to explain how goal-rational homogenization, emotional-based separatism, and the ethnocentric explanation of history can reinforce each other.

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