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1 online resource (xi, 220 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-211) and index. |
| Summary |
From Kosovo to Quebec, 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, and the post-colonial writers, V.S. Naipaul and Edward Said. Cocks not only sheds new light on the complexities of nationalism but also reveals the tensions that have inspired and troubled intellectuals who have sought to lead lives between detached criticism and political passion. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Karl Marx Uncovers the Truth of National Identity -- Imperialism, Self-Determination, and Violence : Rosa Luxemburg, Hannah Arendt, and Frantz Fanon -- On the Jewish Question : Isaiah Berlin and Hannah Arendt -- Are Liberalism and Nationalism Compatible? A Second Look at Isaiah Berlin -- In Defense of Ethnicity, Locality, Nationality : The Curious Case of Tom Nairn -- Cosmopolitanism in a New Key : V.S. Naipaul and Edward Said -- Conclusion. |
| Local Note |
EBSCOhost SocINDEX with Full Text |
| Subject |
Nationalism -- Philosophy.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Nationalism.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Political.
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Nationalism -- Philosophy.
(OCoLC)fst01033845
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cocks, Joan, 1947- Passion and paradox. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2002 0691074674 9780691074672 (DLC) 2001038755 (OCoLC)47805022 |
| ISBN |
9781400825028 (electronic book) |
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1400825024 (electronic book) |
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1400814057 (electronic book) |
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9781400814053 (electronic book) |
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0691074682 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0691074674 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780691074689 |
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