Liberalism, Nationalism, Citizenship: Essays on the Problem of Political CommunityUBC Press, 2003 - 225 pages Liberals believe that the purpose of politics is to guarantee that individuals do not face unfair impediments in pursuing the lives they choose for themselves. Nationalists believe that the purpose of politics is to ensure that a people's sense of authentic nationhood wins full expression in powers of collective sovereignty or self-rule. Both of these forms of political commitment yield world-transforming political philosophies, but do either of these visions do adequate justice to a philosophically robust ideal of shared citizenship and civic membership? In Liberalism, Nationalism, Citizenship, Ronald Beiner engages critically with a wide range of important political thinkers and current debates in light of the Aristotelean idea that shared citizenship is an essential human calling. Virtually every aspect of contemporary political experience - globalization, international migration, secessionist movements, the politics of multiculturalism - pose urgent challenges to modern citizenship. Beiner's work on the philosophy of citizenship is essential reading not just for students of politics and political philosophy, but for all those who rightly sense that these kinds of recent challen |
Table des matières
Introduction | 3 |
Three Models of Political | 21 |
Richard Flathmans Willfully Liberal | 39 |
Thick and Thin Versions | 52 |
The Quest for a PostLiberal Public | 65 |
Is There Such a Thing As a Communitarian Political Philosophy? | 83 |
Nationalisms Challenge to Political Philosophy | 103 |
Reflections of a Diaspora Jew in Israel | 125 |
Some Cautionary Remarks on the Rhetoric | 147 |
Is Canada a Real Country? | 166 |
Debate | 180 |
Some Reflections on | 194 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
Acton Alasdair MacIntyre anglophone appeal argument boundaries Canada Canadian challenge chapter Charles Taylor citizens citizenship civic community civic identity civic nationalism civic-republican claims commitment communitarian conception concerning constitutional contemporary critics critique cultural debate defined Democracy's Discontent Elie Kedourie Eric Hobsbawm Ernest Gellner essay ethnic federal Flathman Gellner Hannah Arendt Hobsbawm human Ibid idea of citizenship ideal ideology individuals instance Israel Jewish justice kind Kymlicka language of rights Liberal Nationalism liberal political liberal society Lucien Bouchard Macedo MacIntyre's Michael Walzer modern moral multiculturalism multinational Nairn nation-state national identity national self-determination nationalist politics normative offer one's pluralism political community political liberalism political philosophy principle problem public philosophy Quebec Quebec nationalism Québécois question Rawls Rawls's Rawlsian reason republican Roger Scruton Ronald Beiner Sandel Scruton secession sense shared social sovereignty theoretical theorists theory Trudeau University Press version of liberalism virtues vision Zionism Zionist