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Anti-imperialism
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Bourgeoisie
British Empire
Capitalism
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Chauvinism
Citizenship
Civic nationalism
Civil society
Colonialism
Common good
Communism
Cosmopolitanism
Criticism
Edward Said
Emancipation
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Ethnic conflict
Ethnic nationalism
Ethos
False consciousness
Family resemblance
Frantz Fanon
Hannah Arendt
Hindu nationalism
Hostility
Humiliation
Identity politics
Ideology
Imperialism
Individualism
Industrialisation
Intellectual
Intelligentsia
Isaiah Berlin
Jews
Karl Marx
Left-wing politics
Liberal democracy
Liberalism
Marxism
Modern history
Modernity
Mount Holyoke College
Multiculturalism
Nation state
National identity
Nationalism
Nationalist Movement
Nationality
Nazism
Neo-Marxism
New Nationalism
Patriotism
Political philosophy
Politician
Politics
Populism
Prejudice
Public sphere
Resentment
Right-wing politics
Rosa Luxemburg
Self-determination
Sensibility
Social class
State (polity)
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Tom Nairn
Wealth
Westphalian sovereignty
Zionism
Product details
- ISBN 9780691074689
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 24 Mar 2002
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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. In lively, conversational prose, Cocks assesses their treatment of questions such as the mythology of national identity, the right to national self-determination, and the morality of nationalist violence. While ultimately critical of nationalism, she engages sympathetically even with its defenders.
By illuminating the links that distinguished minds have drawn between thought and action on nationalism in politics, this stimulating work provides a rich foundation from which we ourselves might think or act more wisely when confronting a phenomenon that, in fundamental and perplexing ways, has shaped our world.
Joan Cocks is Professor of Politics and Chair of the Program in Critical Social Thought at Mount Holyoke College. She is the author of The Oppositional Imagination; Feminism, Critique, and Political Theory.
