Format:
Online-Ressource (xi, 220 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0691074682
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0691074674
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9780691074689
Content:
From Kosovo to Québec, Ireland to East Timor, nationalism has been a recurrent topic of intense debate. It has been condemned as a source of hatred and war, yet embraced for stimulating community feeling and collective freedom. Joan Cocks explores the power, danger, and allure of nationalism by examining its place in the thought of eight politically engaged intellectuals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: the antagonist of capital, Karl Marx; the critics of imperialism Rosa Luxemburg, Hannah Arendt, and Frantz Fanon; the liberal pluralist Isaiah Berlin; the neonationalist Tom Nairn, a
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-211) and index
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Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE: Karl Marx Uncovers the Truth of National Identity; CHAPTER TWO: Imperialism, Self-Determination, and Violence: Rosa Luxemburg, Hannah Arendt, and Frantz Fanon; CHAPTER THREE: On the Jewish Question: Isaiah Berlin and Hannah Arendt; CHAPTER FOUR: Are Liberalism and Nationalism Compatible? A Second Look at Isaiah Berlin; CHAPTER FIVE: In Defense of Ethnicity, Locality, Nationality: The Curious Case of Tom Nairn; CHAPTER SIX: Cosmopolitanism in a New Key: V. S. Naipaul and Edward Said; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
Print version Passion and Paradox : Intellectuals Confront the National Question
Language:
English
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