A passagem do todo ao tudo: nação e globalização

Abstract

This paper aims to refl ect on the relations between the national and the global, both understood as emblems of the sociability within globalization. I assume that such relations might be historically and culturally observed through the Political sphere. In the following, I will develop my refl exion in three main steps. Firstly, I present a synthetic – but interested – approach to certain semantic turns through which the word ‘nation’ has been historically reshaped until the emergence of the nation states in the nineteenth century, particularly after the Italian Risorgimento. Secondly, I recover part of the wide debate on the political and cultural relations between memory and oblivion, and the formationas well as consolidation of national states. A third step is devoted to changes in the public and privet spheres within this perspective. On this basis, I shall discuss the relevance of contemporary political transformations worldwide to the understanding of globalisation processes.