Book Description
This book attempts to classify the accounts of nationhood that can be given in terms of the kinds of argument for statehood they support. It is based on the International Society for the Study of European Ideas conference in 1990.
Author : Paul Gilbert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 32,26 MB
Release : 2018-02-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0429975643
This book attempts to classify the accounts of nationhood that can be given in terms of the kinds of argument for statehood they support. It is based on the International Society for the Study of European Ideas conference in 1990.
Author : Paul Gilbert
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,7 MB
Release : 1998-04-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813330839
In this, the first truly philosophical study of nationalism, Paul Gilbert attempts to make sense of the fact that there are different sorts of nationalism—for example, political and cultural—and that each concept functions with a different understanding of what a nation is. He sets out to explore whether there are any common ideas about what constitutes nationhood and whether these “nations” have particular rights due to them. By treating nationalism as a coherent body of ideas, the text permits a rational reconstruction of the origins of nationalist movements. The book also examines the work of many key theorists, including Mill, Hume, Gramsci, and Gellner, in its coverage of secession, immigration, cultural rights and multiculturalism, and the aesthetics of nationalism.
Author : Yael Tamir
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 37,11 MB
Release : 1995-07-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1400820847
"This is a most timely, intelligent, well-written, and absorbing essay on a central and painful social and political problem of our time."—Isaiah Berlin "The major achievement of this remarkable book is a critical theory of nationalism, worked through historical and contemporary examples, explaining the value of national commitments and defining their moral limits. Tamir explores a set of problems that philosophers have been notably reluctant to take on, and leaves us all in her debt."—Michael Walzer In this provocative work, Yael Tamir urges liberals not to surrender the concept of nationalism to conservative, chauvinist, or racist ideologies. In her view, liberalism, with its respect for personal autonomy, reflection, and choice, and nationalism, with its emphasis on belonging, loyalty, and solidarity, are not irreconcilable. Here she offers a new theory, "liberal nationalism," which allows each set of values to accommodate the other. Tamir sees nationalism as an affirmation of communal and cultural memberships and as a quest for recognition and self-respect. Persuasively she argues that national groups can enjoy these benefits through political arrangements other than the nation-state. While acknowledging that nationalism places members of national minorities at a disadvantage, Tamir offers guidelines for alleviating the problems involved, using examples from currents conflicts in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Liberal Nationalism is an impressive attempt to tie together a wide range of issues often kept apart: personal autonomy, cultural membership, political obligations, particularity versus impartiality in moral duties, and global justice. Drawing on material from disparate fields—including political philosophy, ethics, law, and sociology—Tamir brings out important and previously unnoticed interconnections between them, offering a new perspective on the influence of nationalism on modern political philosophy.
Author : Charles Conant Josey
Publisher : Council Social & Economic Studies
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 50,53 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 9780941694162
Author : John A. Hall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,59 MB
Release : 1998-11-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521633666
An exceptional set of scholars assess every aspect of the most influential theory of nationalism.
Author : Oisin Keohane
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 32,82 MB
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1474431178
Why do we assign nationalities to philosophies? Building on Jacques Derrida's unpublished seminars on philosophical nationalism, Oisín Keohane claims that national philosophies are a variant of some form of cosmo-nationalism: a strain of nationalism that uses, rather than opposes, ideas in cosmopolitanism to advance the aims of one nation.
Author : Charles C. Josey
Publisher :
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 44,62 MB
Release : 2011-12
Category :
ISBN : 9781878465788
Author : Yael Tamir
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 28,79 MB
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0691212058
The surprising case for liberal nationalism Around the world today, nationalism is back—and it’s often deeply troubling. Populist politicians exploit nationalism for authoritarian, chauvinistic, racist, and xenophobic purposes, reinforcing the view that it is fundamentally reactionary and antidemocratic. But Yael (Yuli) Tamir makes a passionate argument for a very different kind of nationalism—one that revives its participatory, creative, and egalitarian virtues, answers many of the problems caused by neoliberalism and hyperglobalism, and is essential to democracy at its best. In Why Nationalism, she explains why it is more important than ever for the Left to recognize these positive qualities of nationalism, to reclaim it from right-wing extremists, and to redirect its power to progressive ends. Provocative and hopeful, Why Nationalism is a timely and essential rethinking of a defining feature of our politics.
Author : Rabindranath Tagore
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 50,7 MB
Release : 2020-04-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Nationalism is a collection of essays by Rabindranath Tagore on the theme of nationalism. He compares the aspects of nationalism in India, in Japan and in the West, in the sunset of the 19th century.
Author : Iqbal Singh Sevea
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 13,79 MB
Release : 2012-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1139536397
This book reflects upon the political philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal, a towering intellectual figure in South Asian history, revered by many for his poetry and his thought. He lived in India in the twilight years of the British Empire and, apart from a short but significant period studying in the West, he remained in Punjab until his death in 1938. The book studies Iqbal's critique of nationalist ideology and his attempts to chart a path for the development of the 'nation' by liberating it from the centralizing and homogenizing tendencies of the modern state structure. Iqbal frequently clashed with his contemporaries over his view of nationalism as 'the greatest enemy of Islam'. He constructed his own particular interpretation of Islam - forged through an interaction with Muslim thinkers and Western intellectual traditions - that was ahead of its time, and since his death both modernists and Islamists have continued to champion his legacy.