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MEMOIR FREDERICK KELLOGG (Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.) A QUEST TO UNDERSTAND NATIONALISM* Once upon a time I tried to delineate the structure of Romanian nationalism. In doing so, I focused on several pillars-language, ed- ucation, religion, foreign threats, and the economy----that supported patriotic Romanian attitudes. Those pillars rose to my consciousness from a multitude of influences: some imaginary, some via teachers and books, and some from experiences in Romania and elsewhere. First, I wondered about the meaning of nationalism per se. Some scholars had defined it as a sense or a feeling, others as an idea. Forthwith I was in a-quandaryfor f -01* intangible and ideas are evanescent unless something is done with them. I was unable to envisage nationalism or to fashion it into a logical equation. What to do? Bow to the chaos of the postmodernist? Or go slowly for- ward, offering a multitude of footnotes in hobbling toward an am- biguous an unobtainable goal? The solution lay somewhere in be- tween. But where? Advice from Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) prompted me to begin at the beginning, that is with my ancestors, with the naive expectation that I could thereby discover an answer. My first forbear of record
Southeastern Europe – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1989
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