Kin, people or nation? : on European political identities / Victor Neumann ; with a foreword by Hans Erich Bödeker ; translated by Gabi Reigh ; edited by Neil Titman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neumann, Victor, author.

Contributor:

Bödeker, Hans Erich, writer of foreword.

Reigh, Gabi, translator.

Titman, Neil, 1970- editor.

John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Standardized Title:

Neam, popor sau națiune? English

Language:

English

Romanian

Subjects (All):

Group identity--Political aspects--Europe.

Group identity.

Group identity--Europe--History.

Nationalism--Europe--History--20th century.

Nationalism.

Europeans.

Ethnicity.

History.

Group identity--Political aspects.

Europe.

Europeans--Ethnic identity.

Multiculturalism--Europe.

Multiculturalism.

Europe--Civilization.

Civilization.

Europe--History.

Europe--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

176 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd, [2021]

Summary:

With a focus on the origins and evolution of political identity, this book explores the way different linguistic communities have defined kin, ethnicity, citizenship and the nation. As Neumann traces the transition over the last two centuries of European history, from the medieval to the modern age, he pays particular attention to the idealistic philosophies that have influenced the intellectual landscape and political discourse of European regions today, and which have intensified the division between East and West in terms of cultural norms, legislation and administration. Published in support of Timi?oara European Capital of Culture 2023.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. I Jules Michelet's Concept Of Peuple

1. Commentary on its origins and meanings

2. Michelet's interrogations

3. Challenging Thierry's arguments

4. When le peuple becomes la nation

5. The social myth

6. Le peuple and geographical determinism

7. The distinguishing features of Michelet's concept of peuple

ch. II Volk (People) And Sprache (Language): Herder's Theories Of Ethnicity And The Nation

1. For a new comprehension of Herderian ideology

2. The `genius' of Sturm und Drang

3. `Songs are the people's archive' - Prussia's German aspirations, embodied by Kulturnation

4. The spirit of the people, viewed from a scientific perspective

5. The purity of Volk and the organic nation

ch. III The Nation: The Meanings of a Historical-Political Concept

1. What is a Nation?

2. The concept of nation in contemporary Europe

3. Why does the concept of nation need to be redefined in relation to Central and Southeastern Europe?

ch. IV Kin and People: The Characteristics of Romanian Ethnocentrism

1. Geographical variations of European culture and politics

2. Symbolic figures and Romanian conceptual confusions

3. The racial connotations of kin

ch. V Theoretical Analysis of the Romanian Concept of Nation

1. Hostility towards diversity or the fantasy of the organic nation

2. Refusal of discontinuity, or the confusion between the old patriarchal society and the modern nation: a neo-Romantic perspective on the beginnings of the Romanian nation

3. The return to Herder

4. The uniqueness of ethnic culture or a further discussion of the idea of nation

ch. VI Multicultural Philosophy: A Comparative Perspective

1. The education and philosophy of multicultural differentialism: observations on Charles Taylor's perspective

2. Ideological meanings of multiculturalism: observations on Habermas's objection to Taylor

3. Harvey Siegel's contribution: transculturality

4. Conditions leading to false premises of multiculturalism

5. The concept of multiple identity.

Notes:

Published in Romanian as 'Neam, popor sau națiune? : despre identitățile politice europene' by Curtea veche, 2003.

New translation based on the text of the third edition, published by Editura RAO, Bucharest, in 2015, with a new preface by the author.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-170) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

1785513745

9781785513749

OCLC:

1245345272