The Rise of Nationalism in Germany

Nationalism is the idea that the nation state can take the role in many ways that God has taken in the past. It doesn't come into existence until I believe 1870 in the work of Bismarck. And so nationalism is fierce in Germany because Germany has finally gone from being just a cultural leader to becoming a political entity with tremendous economic, industrial power and scientific production in its grasp. We are also going to see the conclusion of this idea that the political arena is the place in which ideas struggle with each other and meaning is made.