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A Philosophy of Nationhood and the Modern SelfDefining ‘The Nation’

A Philosophy of Nationhood and the Modern Self: Defining ‘The Nation’ [In this chapter, I try to answer a basic question: ‘What sort of thing is the nation?’. It is therefore a question not about the particular features or the sociological status of nationalism, but about the fundamental political ontology of nationhood. I attempt to show that even within the diverse literature on the nation, one can find common themes that shed some light onto the type of political subjects nations are. These are (1) that nations are imaginary constructs, (2) that provide a framework for organising our political experience (3) and make it possible for us to navigate the specifically modern tension between ‘the particular’ and ‘the universal’.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Philosophy of Nationhood and the Modern SelfDefining ‘The Nation’

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Palgrave Macmillan US
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
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978-1-137-59505-8
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17 –39
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10.1057/978-1-137-59506-5_2
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[In this chapter, I try to answer a basic question: ‘What sort of thing is the nation?’. It is therefore a question not about the particular features or the sociological status of nationalism, but about the fundamental political ontology of nationhood. I attempt to show that even within the diverse literature on the nation, one can find common themes that shed some light onto the type of political subjects nations are. These are (1) that nations are imaginary constructs, (2) that provide a framework for organising our political experience (3) and make it possible for us to navigate the specifically modern tension between ‘the particular’ and ‘the universal’.]

Published: Mar 24, 2017

Keywords: Political Theory; National Identity; Political Community; National Community; True Knowledge

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