WI: A world without nationalism as a political movement?

Er, that was me making a huge typo - i meant enlightenment would weaken religious and dynastic identity.

If nationalism got sublimated into dynastic ideology, the king as the embodiment of the nation might result.

Furthermore, Hobbes' rather authoritarian belief system was part of the (early) Enlightenment, wasn't it? He tried to justify monarchy via Reason and not religion.
 

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If nationalism got sublimated into dynastic ideology, the king as the embodiment of the nation might result.

Furthermore, Hobbes' rather authoritarian belief system was part of the (early) Enlightenment, wasn't it? He tried to justify monarchy via Reason and not religion.

It's debatable; I'm not sure absolutism as a political movement is considered so much a part of it...
However he's got these aspects of proto-enlightenment, true enough (as did Descartes, and later Locke and Montesquieu, both of which are firmly in it)
 
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