Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict: Philosophical PerspectivesNenad Miščević Open Court Publishing, 2000 - 331 pages This collection of essays approaches the problems and strengths of nationalism from a number of philosophical perspectives. The contributors craft a definition of nation/nationalism that emphasizes the cultural and sociopolitical ties uniting members of a country rather than merely their place of origin. |
Contents
On Redefining the Nation | 25 |
On National Belonging | 57 |
Zionism Nationalism and Morality | 75 |
Morally Allowed Required or Valuable? | 101 |
On Liberalisms Ambivalence Regarding Nationalism | 115 |
Confronting the Intuitions | 133 |
The New Nationalisms | 157 |
Liberal Egalitarianism and the Case for Supporting | 197 |
Does Membership in a Nation as Such Generate | 219 |
Is National Identity Essential for Personal Identity? | 239 |
Cosmopolitan Democracy and Liberal Nationalism | 261 |
Liberally Limited Nationalism | 283 |
Cosmopolitan Nationalism | 299 |
Contributors | 321 |
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anomie argue argument associations autonomy Avishai Margalit beliefs about value choice citizens citizenship civic claim collective rights committed compatriots conationals conception concern constitutive context Cosmopolitan Democracy cultural membership cultural nationalism David Miller defend democracy democratic diaspora nation distinction endorsed equal ethnic ethnic nation ethno-national example fact G. A. Cohen global civil society human idea identify impartiality important individual instance institutions intrinsic intuitions Jewish Jews John Rawls justice justify Kai Nielsen kind Kymlicka language liberal egalitarian liberal nationalism liberal nationalists live majority Michel Seymour Miller minority cultures multination nation-state national belonging national culture national identity national minorities national partiality national self-determination Nielsen options Palestinian particular patriotism person Philosophy political community principle protection Quebec question Rawls reason role sense shared social sociopolitical nation solidarity special obligations Tamir territory theory tion Tobin tax traditional Zionism