Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-151).
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Patriotism and cosmopolitanism / Martha C. Nussbaum -- Cosmopolitan patriots / Kwame Anthony Appiah -- Constitutional faith / Benjamin R. Barber -- From part to whole / Sissela Bok -- Universality in culture / Judith Butler -- Revisioning cosmopolitanism / Richard Falk -- Limits of loyalty / Nathan Glazer -- Democratic citizenship / Amy Gutmann -- The illusions of cosmopolitanism / Gertrude Himmelfarb -- Don't neglect the little platoons / Michael W. McConnell -- Eros against Esperanto / Robert Pinsky -- Must we choose between patriotism and universal reason? / Hilary Putnam -- The difficulty of imaging other people / Elaine Scarry -- Humanity and citizenship / Amartya Sen -- Why democracy needs patriotism / Charles Taylor -- Neither patriotism nor cosmopolitanism / Immanuel Wallerstein -- Spheres of affection / Michael Walzer --- Reply / Martha C. Nussbaum.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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For Love of Country is a rare forum: a real conversation among some of our most prominent intellectuals about an issue of urgent public importance. At the center of this lively and utterly readable debate book is Martha Nussbaumi's passionate argument against patriotism. At a time when our connections and obligations to the rest of the world grow only stronger, we should reject patriotism as a parochial ideal, she says, and instead see ourselves first of all as "citizens of the world." Fifteen writers and thinkers respond to Nussbaum's piece in short, hard-hitting, often brilliant essays, acknowledging the power of her argument, but often defending patriotisms and other local commitments with an eloquence equal to Nussbaum's. We hear from an astonishing range of writers from Robert Pinsky to Cornel West to Gertrude Himmelfarb to Sissela Bok. This is contemporary American philosophy at its most relevant and readable. At a time when debates about crises in Bosnia or Somalia are dominated by politicians and military leaders, here are the voices of philosophers and poets, literary scholars and historians. A book of surprising insights and diversity, For Love of Country is especially written for a wide audience and is sure to spark debate. -- Publisher description.