Socio-histoire d'un concept. Les usages du mot « nationalité» au XIXe siècle

Abstract

Socio-History of a Concept: The Uses of the Word «Nationality» in the 19th Century In the French language, the definition of the word «nationality» is caught in a tension between a subjective sense («the feeling of belonging to the nation») and an objective sense («the legal bond tying an individual to his State»). Through the study of the invention and successive uses of the term by French intellectuals in the 19th century, we can understand the reasons for these semantic ambiguities and the role that the issue of «nationality» still plays today in political debates.

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 71 citations exist upstream.