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Record Nr.

UNINA9910955399703321

Autore

Varouxakis Georgios <1966->

Titolo

Mill on nationality / / Georgios Varouxakis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2002

ISBN

0-415-86819-X

1-280-21768-5

0-203-27791-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (185 p.)

Collana

Routledge/PSA political studies series ; ; 3

Disciplina

320.54

Soggetti

Nationalism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Mill on Nationality; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Interpretations of Mill's views on nationality; 2 "A liberal descent"? Challenging the pedigree of "liberal nationalism"; 3 Nations and nationhood I: Did race matter?; 4 Nations and nationhood II: National character and politics, or the discrete charm of Englishness; 5 International relations, intervention/non-intervention and national self-determination; 6 Foreign policy and the public moralist: Fighting ethnocentric "half-truths"; 7 Reconciling patriotism and cosmopolitanism; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

John Stuart Mill's thought has been central in recent (as well as older) works of political theory discussing the relationship between liberal democratic politics and nationality or nationalism -- which is far from surprising, given his undisputed influence on liberal attitudes towards nationality from the 1860s to the present.  This book provides the first thorough critical study of the attitude of this pillar of the liberal tradition towards nationality, nationhood, patriotism, cosmopolitanism, intervention/non-intervention, and international politics more generally.  Based on exhaustive res