Sobre el papel de la política en la comprensión modernista del origen de las naciones: Ernest Gellner frente a Paul Brass

Abstract

It has been discussed for a long time in sociology and political science about the origins of nations and nationalisms. Anthony D. Smith decided to gather a wide group of authors under what he called the modernist paradigm, united by their defense of the modern origin of nationalisms. This work wants to assert the internal heterogeneity of that paradigm, showing two different explanatory logics that Smith includes in modernism.