Nationalism and the moral psychology of community /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
Bernard Yack.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
London :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
The University of Chicago Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2012.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xiv, 328 pages ;
Dimensions
24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-324) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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The myth of the civic nation -- The moral psychology of community -- What then is a nation? -- The people, the nation, and the nation-state -- Legitimacy and loyalty: making sense of nationalism -- Popular sovereignty and the rise of nationalism -- The moral value of contingent communities -- National loyalty and liberal principles -- The moral problem with nationalism -- What's wrong with national rights to self-determination -- Cosmopolitan humility and its price -- Learning to live with nationalism.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"Nationalism is one of modern history's great surprises. How is it that the nation, a relatively old form of community, has risen to such prominence in an era so strongly identified with the individual? Bernard Yack argues that it is the inadequacy of our understanding of community - and especially the moral psychology that animates it - that has made this question so difficult to answer.
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A brilliant and compelling book, Nationalism and the Moral Psychology of Community sets out a revisionist conception of nationalism that cannot be ignored."--pub. desc.
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Yack develops a broader and more flexible theory of community and shows how to use it in the study of nations and nationalism. What makes nationalism such a powerful and morally problematic force in our lives is the interplay of old feelings of communal loyalty and relatively new beliefs about popular sovereignty. By uncovering this fraught relationship, Yack moves our understanding of nationalism beyond the oft-rehearsed debate between primordialists and modernists, those who exaggerate our loss of individuality and those who underestimate the depth of communal attachments.