The Essay: What is a Nation?

Writer Michael Goldfarb considers the definition of the 'nation' for the globalised 21st century. 4. Michael focuses on the story of the Germans and their two century-long struggle to create from 330 plus different political entities a single, stable nation. German philosophers invented the concept of 'nationalism' during the Enlightenment, yet of all the great centres of the Enlightenment it was Germany that has had the hardest time defining exactly what their nation is