Etno-simbolizam vs. modernizam u debatama o nacionalizmu

In this text I present two theoretical and research paradigms that shape the nature and meaning of phenomenon of nation as an socio-political phenomenon and nationalism as the most significant and the most puzzling political ideology of the contemporary world. Also, I will refer to authors who, with their theoretical positions articulate key presuppositions and conditions for the origins and development of nations and nationalism, with the special review of on Anthony D. Smith and his ethno-symbolical perspective. The aim is to prove that ethno-symbolism more effectively explicates an “inner world” and inner motifs of nations and nationalism and that nationalism implicates its relations to modernity that are crucial for a continuous theoretical, political and practical implication in the contemporary age. Also, a critical reflection is directed towards stressing the ethnical dimension which to some extent appeals the concept of ethno-reductionism as a form of essencialisation of social world and its constellations.