Transcendence of the Nation: National Identity and the Terrain of the Divine

Among these I would include the unusual combination of Hans Morgenthau, F.H. Hinsley and R.R.J. Walker.

One could rightly object to this portrayal of a God which is: a) Judaeo-Christian; b) masculine; and c) dead. However, regarding the first two objections, these parochlalisms are intentional, for they help define the shape of the hole into which the nation was placed. The modem state Is a Wettem concept bom of Christian parentage. Further, to suggest that the God of sixteenth century Christendom was gender-neutral would be highly misleading, and would undermine one's ability to undersland the role of gender in the connection of the modern state. Finally, the statement that God is dead is meant as neither an atheistic doctrine, nor a strictly Nietzschean one. It refers to a post-medieval world where the Individual's relationship to God Is no longer the determining feature of political society. That God is dead is a convenient shorthand. The intention of this essay is, in part, to demonstrate that God is actually not dead, but continues to live within the constructs of truth and reason, the ideal of democracy, and most importantly the institutions of state sovereignty and the nation,

B. Anderson , Imagined Communities (London: Verso . 1983). p 30

Horni Bhabha. 'DissemiNation: Time. Narrative and the Margins of the Modern Nation'. Nation and Narration (London: Routledge , 1990 p. 300.

Ibid, p. 297.

C.H. Mellwain (ed.).Pobre at works of James /Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press, 19(8).p. 1.

Michael Walzer. Revolution of the Sounds A Sounds in the Organs of Radical Politics (New York: Columbia University Press, 1966). pp 273-74

, Kenneth Wall. , Matt. the State and War. A Theoretical Analisys ( New York : Columbia University Press, 1965 ),

Andrew Linklates , Men and Citizens in the Therm v of International Relations Second Edition, (London: MacMillan, 1990).

Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Libelti de Life , III. 667, 35, quoted in Ernst Kantorowicz. The King's Two Bades A Study in Medieval Political Theology (Princeton. NB: Princeton University Press, 1957), p. 48.

Ibid pp. 48-49.

Jean de Galoup de Chastueil. Discours sur les arcs triomphans dressés en la ville D'Air. (Aix, 1624), quoled in Roy Strong. An and Power: Renaissance Festivals 1450-1650 (Woodbridge: 1984 ), p. 172: A great deal of the discussion on festival architecture in early modern Europe derives from this work by Roy Strong. However. this work Was written with an emphasis on those who perform the spectacle of state. My reading of it primarily concerns those who witness the performances.

Sacheverell Sitwell , Great Palaces of Europe (New York; Pulnam and Sons, 1964).

J. Sylvester . Divine Weeker and Weekes ( London. 1605), p 133. quoted in Francis A Yates , Elizabethan Chivalry: The Romance of Accession Day Tills', Journal of the Warburg and Courtould Institutes (Vol. 20, 1957). p 7.

Mark Jones. The Art of the Medol (London. British Muscum. 1979).

George R. Kemodle. 'Renaissance Artists in the Service of The People: Political Tableaux and Street Theatres in France. Flanders, and England', Art Bulletin (Vol 25. 1941). p. 59.

Ibid, P. 59.

Strong , op. cit, in note 12, p. 10.

Ibid, p. 80.

Ibid p. 24.

Ibid, p. 172.

Kernodle , op cit, in note 16. pp. 59-64.

Strong. op. cit., in note 12. p. 86,

The intermarriage of Italian and French here is not my own, but scems to be convention.

Strong. op., cit. in note 12, p. 61

C. If. Mcilwain. op. cit., in note 6, p. 4.1.

I.E. Neale. Elizabeth I and Her Parliments (London ; ). Cape. 1958). pp. 2 and 119.

Stephen Orgel , The Illusion of Power: Political Theatre in the English Renaisssances (Berkeley. CA, University of California Press. 1975), p. 2

Ibid, p. 10.

Michel Foucault The Outer of Things An Archeology of the Human Scienes (New York: Vintage Books , 1913).

Jurgen Habermas , (trans.), Thomas Burger. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: an Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1989), pp. 9-10.

See Eric Hobsbawm . Nations and Nationalism Since 1780. Progrmme. Myth. Reality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. 74-75.

F.H. Hinsley , Power and the Pursed of Peace: Theory and Practice in the History of Relations Between States (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1963), pp, 213-74,

Hobsbawm , op. cit, in note 32. p. 23; Marc Block , The Royal Touch Soved Monarchy and Serofula in England and France (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul , 1973).

See Ehud Luz , (trans ). L.F., Schramm , Parellels Meet: Religion and Nationalism in The Early Zionist Movement. 1882-1904 ( Philadelphia. PA;Jewish Publication Society. 1988); and Pedro Ramet , Religion and Nationalism in Soviet and Eastern European Politics (Dutham NC: Duke University Press, 1984).

Bruce Kapferer . Legen4.v af Pri)ple. M,rrh.r of Store.- Violence, lnruleramr, and PnliriruP Culrrrre In Sri Lanka and Australia ( Waxhington. DC: Smilhsonian Institute Press. 1988).

Robert Phillipe , Potirli-al Graphics: Arr as Wranan ( New York: Abbeville Press. 1980).

Quoted in Conor Cruise O'Brien , God Land: Reflections on Religion and Nationalism (Cambridge. MA: Harverd Universily Press. 1988). p. 50.

'1. Maurice Agkilhon, (trans.), Janet Lloyd , Marrianne into Battle: Republican Imagery and Symbolised in France. 1789-1880 (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1981 ), p. 25.

Ibid, p. 21.

Bill Readings , Introducing Lyotard: An and Politics (London: Rtmiitdgt. 1991), pp. 92-96.

Fyodor Dostoevsky. (trans.). David Magarshack. The Brothers Karamazov ( London : Penguin, 1982). p. 302,

Rainer Maria Rilke, (trans.), C. Craig Houston , Rodin ( Scott Lake City. UT: Peregrine Smith, 1979) P. 59.

Jean Froissart , (trans, and ed.), Thomas Johnes , Chroniclas of England. France, Spain and the Adjoining Countries From the Latter Part of the Region of Edward II and the Coronation of Henry VI ( New York: Leavin, True and Co.. 1849). pp, 93-95.

Gustav Geffroy , The Sculptor Rodin'. Arts and Letters (London, 1889), pp. 289-304. quoted in Ruth Butler (ed .), Rodin in Perspective (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prenlice Hall. 1980), pp. 62-64. 46. Ernest Renan ,' I Whai is a Nation?', in Homi Bhabha, up, in note 4. p. 19.

M. Rheim ,,. (trans), R.E. Wolf, Nineteenth Century Sculpture ( London : Thames and Hudson. 1977 ).

F.V. Orunfeld. Rodin: A Biography (New York: Holt , 1987). p. 251.

Ibid, p. 252.

Albert Elsen , 'Rodin's Modernity' in Butler , op. cit, in note 45, p. 169,

The European Community may be an exception as it does seem to invoke feelings of identity. I recall being al the Berlin Wall on (he night of 10 November 1989, when art European Community flag hoisted upon Ihe wall induced thunderous applause from the (presumably West German) crowd. There may be a separate article in this.