Introduction : a return to nationalism -- Two visions of world order -- The roman church and its vision of empire -- The protestant construction of the west -- John Locke and the liberal construction -- Nationalism discredited -- Liberalism as imperialism -- Nationalist alternatives to liberalism -- Two types of political philosophy -- The foundations of political order -- How are states really born? -- Business and family -- Empire and anarchy -- National freedom as an ordering principle -- The virtues of the national state -- The myth of the federal solution -- The myth of the neutral state -- A right to national independence? -- Some principles of the order of national states -- Is hatred an argument against nationalism? -- The shaming campaigns against Israel -- Immanuel Kant and the anti-nationalist paradigm -- Two lessons of Auschwitz -- Why the enormities of the Third World and Islam go unprotested -- Britain, America and other deplorable nations -- Why imperialists hate -- Conclusion : the virtue of nationalism.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
A leading conservative thinker argues that a world of sovereign nations is the only option for those who care about personal and collective freedom.
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Title
Virtue of nationalism.
International Standard Book Number
9781541645387
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Nationalism-- History.
Nationalism-- Philosophy.
HISTORY / Middle East / Israel.
Nationalism-- History.
Nationalism-- Philosophy.
Nationalism.
Nationalism.
PHILOSOPHY / Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism.