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Afterword: Liberal Nationalism Both Cosmopolitan and Rooted

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Jocelyne Couture ,
Kai Nielsen  and
Michel Seymour
Jocelyne Couture
Affiliation:
Université du Québec à Montréal
Kai Nielsen
Affiliation:
University of Calgary and Concordia University
Michel Seymour
Affiliation:
Université de Montréal
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There are nationalisms and nationalisms, and as nationalisms vary from barbarous and murderous to benign and, all things considered, perhaps desirable, so theories of nationalism vary from irrational or turgid metaphysical accounts to reasonable and carefully articulated and argued theories of nationalism. André Van de Putte has well described some of the former (without at all falling into that category himself) while David Miller, Yael Tamir, Geneviève Nootens, Ross Poole, and Robert X. Ware have carefully argued for some modest forms of nationalism, sometimes explicitly and sometimes only by implication. But there are also, as the reader will have seen, forcefully argued and systematic theories setting themselves against even the most sophisticated and plausible defences of nationalism. The articles of Harry Brighouse, Omar Dahbour, and Andrew Levine fall explicitly into that category and, we would argue, so does Allen Buchanan's carefully wrought article, though implicitly and by implication but not by programmatic intent.

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Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Volume , Volume 22: Rethinnking Nationalism , 1996 , pp. 579 - 662
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Copyright © The Authors 1996

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