Postnationalist Ireland: Politics, Culture, Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9780415115032 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 270 str.

Richard Kearney

Opis

The encroachment of globalization and demands for greater regional autonomy have had a profound effect on the way we picture Ireland. This work looks at the key issue of sovereignty, and asks how we should think about the identity of a postnationalist Ireland. It goes to the heart of the conflict over demands for communal identity - traditionally expressed by nationalism - and the demand for a universal model of citizenship - traditionally expressed by republicanism. Is so doing, the text asks us to question whether the sacrosanct concept of absolute national sovereignty is becoming a luxury ill afforded in the emerging new Europe. Moving beyond the political, the author considers the influence of philosophers such as George Berkeley, John Toland and John Tyndall, and looks at some of the myths in Irish poetry and nationhood.

Recenzje

'I have to admire what he has unwrapped - a kind of preview of the new order in which we shall have to reinterpret our regional, national and transnational commitments if we are to escape the arrogance of nationalism and its programmed consequences.' - The Observer

'The book is worth buying for the politics section alone: Kearney's analysis of such concepts as nationality, sovereignty, regionalism and republicanism make the book a sourcebook of political theory for the Irish situation. In its own re-imaginings, of Irish history, politics and culture, Postnationalist Ireland challenges rather than offends and offers a fragile strand of hope for our future.' - The Irish News

Spis treści

Introduction: Beyond the nation-state Part I Politics 1 Beyond sovereignty 2 Ideas of a republic 3 Genealogy of the republic 4 Postnationalism and postmodernity 5 Rethinking Ireland Part II Culture 6 The fifth province: Between the local and the global 7 Myths of motherland 8 Myth and nation in modern Irish poetry Part III Philosophy 9 George Berkeley: We Irish think otherwise 1110 John Toland: An Irish philosopher? 11 John Tyndall Irish science Postscript: Towards a postnationalist Ireland

O autorze

Richard Kearney is Professor of Philosophy at University College, Dublin, and lectures regularly at Boston College. He has presented cultural and literary features on Irish and European television and has recently published his first novel, Sam’s Fall.