| Description |
1 online resource (211 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Polis, Nation, Global Community -- Part I Ancient Conceptions of Polis and Empire -- Chapter 1 Citizenship and the polis in Aristotle's Politics -- Chapter 2 Cicero's empire of wisdom -- Part II Modern Birth and Life of the Nation-State -- Chapter 3 Defining the law of nations: Revisions of Cicero's ius gentium in Suárez, Grotius, and Burke |
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Chapter 4 The creation of man: Linguistic reformation and the necessity of the state in the work of Thomas Hobbes -- Chapter 5 Nation against empire: J.G. Fichte on economic and cultural nationalism -- Chapter 6 Creating sovereignty: Religious authority, the social contract and the need for political friendship -- Part III The Postmodern Challenge to Nationalism and State Sovereignty -- Chapter 7 Nietzsche against the sovereign individual in the second essay of the Genealogy -- Chapter 8 What is a people? -- Part IV Contemporary Challenges to Global Citizenship |
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Chapter 9 Rootedness and national identity in the twenty-first century -- Chapter 10 Honor, cynicism, and liberal education -- Chapter 11 Loving one's own: Pathway to justice or retrograde tribalism? -- Chapter 12 Pierre Manent on the nation, humanity, and politics as the great mediation -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000425796 |
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1000425797 |
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