Community of Citizens: On the Modern Idea of Nationality"For its richness and its coherence, the work of Dominique Schnapper marks incontestably an advance in the reflection, already abundant, upon the idea of the nation, and no subsequent research will be able to proceed without taking it into account." -Thomas Ferenczi, Le Monde des Livres |
Contents
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The Political and the National | 35 |
Transcendence by Citizenship | 65 |
The Institution of National Uniqueness | 95 |
Conceiving the Nation | 131 |
Democracy against the Nation? | 155 |
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Community of Citizens: On the Modern Idea of Nationality Dominique Schnapper No preview available - 2018 |
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abstract according affirmed American Aron aroused belonging born citizenship civic nation Claude Lévi-Strauss collective colonial community of citizens conception concrete conflicts countries create cultural defined democracy democratic democratic nation dimension Dominique Schnapper Durkheim economic Émile Durkheim empire entities equality Ernest Gellner essential ethnic ethnic nation European existence fact Fichte founded France French Geertz Gellner German groups historians historical identity ideology immigrants imposed independent individual institutions integration intellectual internal invented Jewish Jews juridical language liberty linked logic Mario Vargas Llosa Mauss Max Weber means modern nation nation-state national idea national project nationalist nomic participation particular patriotism Philippe Gauthier political nation political organization political project political society political units politically constituted nations populations principle reality recognized regime religious Renan Revolution Schnapper secular sociologists sociology sovereignty symbolic tion Tocqueville tradition transcendence unique universal values West Germany Western Europe World War II Yishuv Zionist
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Page 3 - The aim of all political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression. 3 The principle of all sovereignty resides essentially in the nation. No body nor individual may exercise any authority which does not proceed directly from the nation.
Page 21 - nation" is, first of all, not identical with the "people of a state," that is, with the membership of a given polity. Numerous polities comprise groups who emphatically assert the independence of their "nation...
Page 18 - All that I can find to say is that a nation exists when a significant number of people in a community consider themselves to form a nation, or behave as if they formed one.
Page 18 - Thus I am driven to the conclusion that no "scientific definition" of the nation can be devised; yet the phenomenon has existed and exists