![]() ![]() Whereas nationalism is offensive and inseparable from a desire for power. Patriotism is the devotion to a particular place, way of life, which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force it on other people. Orwell primarily insists on the difference between patriotism and nationalism. This article will thus dissect the concept of nationalism as described by George Orwell, following the order of the diagram below, before critically reflecting on its relevance and limits. Instead, the theory of nationalism is moved by emotions and inconsistency. Therefore, nationalism does not form as a result of a rational intellectual process based on reality. ![]() ![]() ![]() In his ‘Notes on Nationalism’, published in 1945, Orwell develops the above thesis by studying the mechanisms of nationalism, which he defines, in this context, as the feeling of identifying oneself to a nation or other unit, ‘placing it beyond good and evil’, and recognizing no other duty than to advance its interest. ‘The very concept of objective truth is fading in the world… This prospect frightens me much more than bombs’, George Orwell says in Fascism and Democracy. Written by: Thomas Bouzereau and Pauline Darrieus ![]()
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