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The Limits of Nationalism

By Chaim Gans

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2003
ISBN
9780521004671, 0521004675
Open Library ID
OL7712724M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1876702 bytes)
Pages
203\203
Topic
History
Library
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Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

Description

This book discusses the justifications and limits of cultural nationalism from a liberal perspective. Chaim Gans presents a normative typology of nationalist ideologies, distinguishing between cultural liberal nationalism and statist liberal nationalism. Statist nationalisms argue that states have an interest in the cultural homogeneity of their citizenries. Cultural nationalisms argue that people have interests in adhering to their cultures (the adherence thesis) and in sustaining these cultures for generations (the historic thesis). Gans argues that freedom- and identity-based justifications for cultural nationalism common in literature can only support the adherence thesis, while the historical thesis could only be justified by the interest people have in the long-term endurance of their personal and group endeavors. The Limits of Nationalism examines demands often made in the name of cultural nationalism, such as claims for national self-determination, historical rights claims to territories and demands entailedby cultural particularism as opposed to cultural cosmopolitanism.

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