Nation and Identity

ISBN-13: 9780415126236 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 224 str.

Ross Poole

Opis

A comprehensive account of the place of national identity in modern life. Ross Poole argues that the nation became a fundamental organizing principle of social, political and moral life during the period of early modernity and that is has provided the organizng principle of much liberal, republican and democratic thought. He offers an analysis of the concept of identity, arguing that we are now in a position to envisage the end of nationalism. We see that the impact of issues like multiculturalism, republicanism, and indigenous rights have made it very difficult to see how the possibility of a postnational cosmopolitanism could not degenerate into a nihilistic moral universe.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 The coming of nationalism; Chapter 2 National and other identities; Chapter 3 Three concepts of freedom; Chapter 4 Multiculturalism, Aboriginal rights and the nation; Chapter 5 The end of the affair?;

O autorze

Ross Poole is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University, Australia. His previous book, Morality and Modernity (Routledge, 1991), was selected by Choice as an outstanding philosophy book in 1991.