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Scottish kilts invented in the 19th century

example · Eric Hobsbawm: The Invention of Tradition · retold in 3 talks

Žižek cites Hobsbawm: all that Scottish Highland culture (kilts etc.) is a late 19th-century invention, illustrating Malebranche's fossil-planting God as the model for ideological false pasts.

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“All that Scottish bullshit with skirts, kilts, this is all late 19th century, of course.”
“The idea of kilts, this male skirts — nothing like that in Middle Ages. All invented in late nineteenth century revival.”
54:10 Karl Marx and Hegel2013-03-08 · 1:37:40
“most of the traditions that we celebrate as blah blah were invented, invented usually late 19th century”
44:25 The Animal Doesn’t Exist2011-12-16 · 1:57:52

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Žižek cites Hobsbawm: all that Scottish Highland culture (kilts etc.) is a late 19th-century invention, illustrating Malebranche's fossil-planting God as the model for ideological false pasts., illustrating ideology creates false past,Hegelian totality
54:10 Karl Marx and Hegel2013-03-08 · 1:37:40
Hobsbawm's Inventions of Tradition shows that the kilt as a symbol of authentic Scottish identity was invented in the late 19th century, the paradigm case that traditions presented as ancient are recent constructions., illustrating invention of tradition,absoluter Gegenstoß
44:25 The Animal Doesn’t Exist2011-12-16 · 1:57:52
Eric Hobsbawm's 'Invention of Tradition' shows that most national traditions celebrated as ancient were invented in the late 19th century, kilts being a prime example, confirming that national identity is built on ideological fossils., illustrating invention of tradition,national identity as retroactive construction,fossils as ideology