Nation and identity / Ross Poole.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Poole, Ross, 1938-

Series:

Ideas (Series) (Routledge (Firm))

Ideas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism.

Liberty.

Multiculturalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Nation and Identity provides a concise and comprehensive account of the place of national identity in modern life. Ross Poole argues that the nation became a fundamental organising principle of social, political and moral life during the period of early modernity and that is has provided the organising principle of much liberal, republican and democratic thought. Ross Poole offers us a new and urgently needed 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 i

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Nation and Identity""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""1 The coming of nationalism""; ""The nation: imagination and culture""; ""The Gellner thesis: nationalism and industrialisation""; ""Explaining the nation""; ""The modernity of nations""; ""Culture, will and ethnicity""; ""2 National and other identities""; ""Persons""; ""Self-interpreting animals""; ""National identity""; ""National identity and moral philosophy""; ""3 Three concepts of freedom: Liberalism, republicanism and nationalism""; ""Freedom and citizenship in the classical world""

""From negative to positive freedom""""Hegel: the making of the modern citizen""; ""Citizenship and national identity""; ""Conclusion""; ""4 Multiculturalism, Aboriginal rights and the nation""; ""The claims of culture""; ""Aboriginal rights""; ""5 The end of the affair?""; ""The end of nationalism""; ""Three forms of cosmopolitanism""; ""Living with diversity""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliographical essay: The state of the nation""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [194]-204) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-80020-7

1-280-05827-7

0-203-28894-7

0-203-20915-X

9780203209158

OCLC:

70740806