Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Acronyms
- Introduction: The Sublime Object of Nationalism
- Chapter 1 The Nature of African Nationalism
- Chapter 2 The Democratic Origin of Nations
- Chapter 3 African Nationalism in South Africa
- Chapter 4 The South African Nation
- Chapter 5 The Impossibility of the National Community
- Chapter 6 The Production of the Public Domain
- Chapter 7 The Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Identity of ‘the People’
- Conclusion: Notes Towards a Theory of the Democratic Limit
- Endnotes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Acronyms
- Introduction: The Sublime Object of Nationalism
- Chapter 1 The Nature of African Nationalism
- Chapter 2 The Democratic Origin of Nations
- Chapter 3 African Nationalism in South Africa
- Chapter 4 The South African Nation
- Chapter 5 The Impossibility of the National Community
- Chapter 6 The Production of the Public Domain
- Chapter 7 The Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Identity of ‘the People’
- Conclusion: Notes Towards a Theory of the Democratic Limit
- Endnotes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Do South Africans Exist?Nationalism, Democracy and the Identity of ‘The People’, pp. 251 - 261Publisher: Wits University PressPrint publication year: 2007