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nationalism

5 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.

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Adolf Hitler

Austrian-born German dictator — leader of the Nazi Party and Chancellor/Führer of Germany 1933–1945 — whose regime prosecuted World War II, the Holocaust, and the systematic murder of six million Jews and millions of others.

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Giuseppe Garibaldi

Italian general and politician who was the military hero of Italian unification — conquering Sicily and Naples with his Thousand in 1860 — and whose romantic heroism made him the most celebrated figure of 19th century European nationalism.

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Giuseppe Mazzini

Italian nationalist philosopher and revolutionary who founded Young Italy and provided the intellectual framework for Italian unification — arguing for a democratic Italian republic based on the duty of citizens to their nation and to God.

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Johann Gottlieb Fichte was a German idealist philosopher who radicalized Kant's critical philosophy into a dynamic theory of the self as pure activity.

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Josh Hawley

Republican Senator from Missouri (2019–) — Yale Law graduate — former Missouri Attorney General — who raised his fist in solidarity with January 6 protesters and then objected to certification of the 2020 election results — the most intellectually ambitious nationalist conservative in the Senate.

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