Illusion of the Peoples

A Critique of National Self-Determination

AvOmar Dahbour

Inbunden, Engelska, 2003

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Beskrivning

The principle of national self-determination is one of the two or three most influential, but least understood, concepts in modern political thought. While recent philosophical examination has failed to look at the concept in any systematic fashion, in this book Omar Dahbour examines all of the arguments that have been given for national self-determination, whether by international lawyers, moral philosophers, democratic theorists, or political communitarians. Without trying to either justify of condemn nation-states, Dahbour attempts to rescue this frequently invoked idea from nationalistic misuse, and applies it to current political struggles against globalization and imperialism.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2003-01-21
Mått:161 x 234 x 26 mm
Vikt:481 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Lexington Studies in Social, Legal, and Political Philosophy
Antal sidor:276
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780739105245

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Omar Dahbour is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College, CUNY. He coedited The Nationalism Reader (with Micheline Ishay, 1995).

Recensioner i media

An important and persuasive study of the highly influential doctrine of national self-determination. Dahbour subjects claims that groups have a right to a state of their own to lucid philosophical examination, and gives the concept of nationalism the moral scrutiny it deserves.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 Introduction: Nationalism as Belief and as DoctrineChapter 2 National Identity and Political AutonomyChapter 3 Peoples and Nations in International LawChapter 4 Cultural Rights and the Ethics of Self-DeterminationChapter 5 Consent Theory and Democratic Self-DeterminationChapter 6 The Nation-State as an Ethical CommunityChapter 7 The Contradictions of Liberal NationalismChapter 8 Conclusion: Self-Determination Without Nationalism