Patriotism and nationalism are the most powerful mass mobilization forces in human history, but the differences in their historical development and specific connotations have become quite blurred, and people often use these two terms indiscriminately. How to correctly distinguish patriotism and nationalism and reconstruct the original connotations of these two terms is what the author of this book strives to achieve.
By sorting out and excavating well-known and unknown related discussions in the history of the development of European patriotism and nationalism, this book re-distinguishes the connotative differences between patriotism and nationalism, puts forward unique insights into returning to patriotism without nationalism, and paves the way for the construction of the civic virtue of republican patriotism.
