Nationalism and the Moral Psychology of Community

Name: Nationalism and the Moral Psychology of Community
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ISBN: 9780226944678

ISBN-10: 0226944670

ISBN-13: 9780226944678

Edition: 2012

Authors: Bernard Yack

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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. 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…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/11/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.078

Charles Parsons is Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Harvard University.



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction






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





Introduction to Part Two



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


Conclusion


Bibliography


Index