Patriotism, Cosmopolitanism, and National Culture

Patriotism, Cosmopolitanism, and National Culture

Author: Peter Uwe Hohendahl

Publisher: Rodopi

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9789042011854

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The essays assembled in this volume grew out of a conference held at Cornell University in November 2001. The goal of the conference was to examine the claim that the city-state of Hamburg had a unique status in the cultural landscape of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Germany, a status based upon the city's republican political constitution. Hamburg's independence and its tolerant and cosmopolitan political traditions made it a focal point for progressive cultural developments during the period of the Enlightenment and after. The contributions collected here transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries by giving equal attention to literature, music, and theater, as well as to architecture and city planning. Key essays address the role that figures as diverse as C.P.E. Bach, Lessing, Klopstock, Heine, Brahms, and Thomas Mann played in shaping Hamburg's exceptional quality as a center of culture. This volume will be of interest not only to scholars doing research on Hamburg, but also to anyone with an interest in the cultural history of eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth-century Germany.


Patriotism, Cosmopolitanism, and National Culture

Patriotism, Cosmopolitanism, and National Culture

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-11-08

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 9004490787

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The essays assembled in this volume grew out of a conference held at Cornell University in November 2001. The goal of the conference was to examine the claim that the city-state of Hamburg had a unique status in the cultural landscape of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Germany, a status based upon the city’s republican political constitution. Hamburg’s independence and its tolerant and cosmopolitan political traditions made it a focal point for progressive cultural developments during the period of the Enlightenment and after. The contributions collected here transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries by giving equal attention to literature, music, and theater, as well as to architecture and city planning. Key essays address the role that figures as diverse as C.P.E. Bach, Lessing, Klopstock, Heine, Brahms, and Thomas Mann played in shaping Hamburg’s exceptional quality as a center of culture. This volume will be of interest not only to scholars doing research on Hamburg, but also to anyone with an interest in the cultural history of eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth-century Germany.


Hegel on Political Identity

Hegel on Political Identity

Author: Lydia L. Moland

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2011-04-30

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 0810127415

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In Hegel on Political Identity, Lydia Moland provocatively draws on Hegel's political philosophy to engage sometimes contentious contemporary issues such as patriotism, national identity, and cosmopolitanism. Moland argues that patriotism for Hegel indicates an attitude toward the state, whereas national identity is a response to culture. The two combine, Hegel claims, to enable citizens to develop concrete freedom. Moland argues that Hegel's account of political identity extends to his notorious theory of world history; she also proposes that his resistance to cosmopolitanism be reassessed in response to our globalized world. By focusing on Hegel's depiction of political identity as a central part of modern life, Moland shows the potential of Hegel's philosophy to address issues that lie at the heart of ethical and political philosophy.


Nations Matter

Nations Matter

Author: Craig Calhoun

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-04-20

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 113412757X

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Craig Calhoun, one of the most respected social scientists in the world, re-examines nationalism in light of post-1989 enthusiasm for globalization and the new anxieties of the twenty-first century. Nations Matter argues that pursuing a purely postnational politics is premature at best and possibly dangerous. Calhoun argues that, rather than wishing nationalism away, it is important to transform it. One key is to distinguish the ideology of nationalism as fixed and inherited identity from the development of public projects that continually remake the terms of national integration. Standard concepts like 'civic' vs. 'ethnic' nationalism can get in the way unless they are critically re-examined – as an important chapter in this book does. This book is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of sociology, history, political theory and all subjects concerned with nationalism, globalization, and cosmopolitanism.


The Limits of Nationalism

The Limits of Nationalism

Author: Chaim Gans

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-02-13

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780521004671

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A radical new perspective on the demands made in the name of cultural nationalism.


Biblical Patriotism

Biblical Patriotism

Author: Adam Wyatt

Publisher: Gcrr Press

Published: 2021-10-12

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9781737846901

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In a deeply divided nation, how should the Christian church view patriotism? This book takes a comprehensive look at the topic by examining how the Bible frames patriotic duty as a proper alternative to both nationalism and cosmopolitanism.


Reclaiming Patriotism in an Age of Extremes

Reclaiming Patriotism in an Age of Extremes

Author: Steven B. Smith

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2021-02-23

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 0300258704

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A rediscovery of patriotism as a virtue in line with the core values of democracy in an extremist age The concept of patriotism has fallen on hard times. What was once a value that united Americans has become so politicized by both the left and the right that it threatens to rip apart the social fabric. On the right, patriotism has become synonymous with nationalism and an “us versus them” worldview, while on the left it is seen as an impediment to acknowledging important ethnic, religious, or racial identities and a threat to cosmopolitan globalism. Steven B. Smith reclaims patriotism from these extremist positions and advocates for a patriotism that is broad enough to balance loyalty to country against other loyalties. Describing how it is a matter of both the head and the heart, Smith shows how patriotism can bring the country together around the highest ideals of equality and is a central and ennobling disposition that democratic societies cannot afford to do without.


Nationalism and Human Rights

Nationalism and Human Rights

Author: G. Cheng

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-02-14

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1137012021

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By critically addressing the tension between nationalism and human rights that is presumed in much of the existing literature, the essays in this volume confront the question of how we should construe human rights: as a normative challenge to the excesses of modernity, particularly those associated with the modern nation-state, or as an adjunct of globalization, with its attendant goal of constructing a universal civilization based on neoliberal economic principles and individual liberty.


Handbook of Patriotism

Handbook of Patriotism

Author: Mitja Sardoč

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2020-07-28

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783319544830

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Both historically and conceptually, patriotism has been one of the foundational characteristics that defines the very essence of one’s attachment, identification and loyalty to a political community and a basic virtue associated with citizenship as a political conception of the person. Despite its centrality in the pantheon of political ideals, patriotism remains a contested concept and an elusive virtue as well as a source of potential conflicts and violence. The Handbook of Patriotism (the first reference work of its kind) brings together a set of contributions by some of the leading authors on the main themes and concepts associated with this area of scholarly research. Each chapter provides a comprehensive coverage of a particular aspect of this complex, and controversial, social phenomenon. The handbook provides a clear and authoritative exposition of key contemporary conceptions of patriotism, discusses the justification and the motivational impulses associated with patriotism, and examines some of the different ideas most commonly associated with one’s attachment, identification and loyalty to a political community. At the same time, it covers a number of basic concepts associated with the ‘standard’ analysis of patriotism, e.g. civic friendship, solidarity, associative duties, civic virtue, loyalty, pride, responsibility, courage etc. It also presents some of the concepts that were previously lef outside its gravitational orbit, e.g. federalism, religion, taxation and the economy.


Local Citizenship in a Global Age

Local Citizenship in a Global Age

Author: Kenneth A. Stahl

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-05-14

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1107156467

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Presents a distinctly local idea of citizenship that, with the advance of globalization, often conflicts with national citizenship.