Despite the continuity of racism and right-wing terror in Germany, German education sciences have only marginally addressed the complicity between 'education' and 'nation' . In this book, the myth of education, the nation, the Bildungsnation is detranscendentalized. The author examines 'education' and the 'nation' as central concepts of the (neo)colonial system of reference in their entanglement. Different perspectives (postcolonial, hegemony theory, cultural anthropology, psychoanalytic) illuminate and historicize the '(educational) nation' as an ongoing fiction with real consequences.
