Nations before the Nation-State Between City-State and Empire from Antiquity to the Present
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Anna Marisa Schön is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Department of Political Science at Duke University. Her research focuses on medieval political thought, and questions surrounding nationalism, national pluralism, and empire. She has co-translated J. G. Fichte's work on the French Revolution (2021) and her work has appeared in History of Political Thought, British Journal of the History of Philosophy, and Democratic Theory.'Anna Marisa Schön's book has helped me to think broadly and deeply about the history of political thought. … Elegantly written and clearly structured, the volume takes readers on a memorable tour of historiographical theories and the history of the concept of nation and nationality … Schön makes a case well worth considering, whether or not one is finally persuaded, that politics and political theory today can benefit from recalling early meanings of nation and situating the nation in its proper place, between the polis and empire, in theory and practice.' Mary M. Keys, Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame
'In this monumental study, Anna Marisa Schön offers an ambitious vision of the emergence of the idea of nationhood in the West … The shibboleth among scholars is that it is meaningless or even dangerously misguided to speak of a 'nation' prior to some precise moment in modern European history … Schön demonstrates that this narrative embraces a fundamental category error, namely, that the idea of 'nation' cannot be separated from the 'nation-state' or a principle of territorial sovereignty … Schön's analyses are well-informed in terms of primary sources as well as up-to-date secondary literature. Her accomplishment is singular in both its depth and breadth.' Cary J. Nederman, Professor of Political Science, Texas A&M University