Inner Frontier : The Place of Nation in the Political Theory of Democracy and Federalism.
Title:
Inner Frontier : The Place of Nation in the Political Theory of Democracy and Federalism.
Author:
Maiz, Ramon.
ISBN:
9783035261301
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (228 pages)
Series:
Diversitas ; v.11
Diversitas
Contents:
Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables 13 -- Acknowledgements 15 -- Preface 17 -- CHAPTER 1 - The Nation and the Freedom of the Moderns. A Republic Without the Nation or the Nation Without a Republic: E.J. Sieyès and J.G. Fichte 23 -- 1. From the Sovereignty of the Nation to the Constitutional State Without a Sovereign: Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès 24 -- 2. From the Sovereignty of the Nation to the Sovereignty of the State: Johann Gottlieb Fichte 36 -- CHAPTER 2 - The Myth of Civic Patriotism: Nationalism in the Shadow of the French Republic 61 -- 1. The Founding Fathers: Ernest Renan and Friedrich Meinecke 63 -- 2. The Binary Logic of the Dichotomy Between "Ethnic Nations" and "Civic Nations" 68 -- 3. The Insurmountable Problems of the Dichotomy Between the "Ethnic Nation" and the "Civic Nation" 72 -- 4. The Historical Nationalization of the French Republic 81 -- 5. Republicanism, Nationalism and Immigration in Contemporary France 98 -- CHAPTER 3 - Nation and Interpretation 109 -- 1. The Nation as a Process 109 -- 2. Nations and Nationalisms 113 -- 3. The Nation as a Discourse 118 -- 4. The Diversity of Nationalisms 124 -- CHAPTER 4 - Nation and Deliberation 135 -- 1. The Nation and Modern Identity 137 -- 2. Is the Nation a Constituting Component of Democracy? 140 -- 3. Reconstructing the Concept of the Nation Through the Apertura of Democratic Theory 145 -- 4. The Nation and the Political Demands of Republican Democracy 157 -- CHAPTER 5 - The Normative Theory of Plurinational Federalism and the Non-nationalist Idea of the Nation 175 -- 1. Introduction: Is a Modern Normative Theory of Federalism Necessary? 175 -- 2. Positive and Normative Theories of Federalism 178 -- 3. The Veil of Ignorance andthe Federal Principle of Autonomy 186 -- 4. Federalism: Contract or Coordination? 194 -- 5. A Federal Republican Concept of the Nation 198.
6. Conclusion: Toward a Normative Theory of Federalism 203 -- Bibliography 207.
Abstract:
In reaction to the fear of nation, which is widely represented in most contemporary political theory of liberalism and republicanism, this book outlines the necessity of including a national dimension in any democratic theory capable of facing the challenges of our time. The aim of the volume is to offer the reader a new non-nationalist concept of nation that is compatible with the normative requirements of democracy. The author considers a wide range of material in order to overcome assumptions, concepts and supposed evidence that have been uncritically accepted and repeated since the nineteenth century. The book includes a comprehensive analysis of the intimate connection between state and nation in the work of two of the deepest thinkers about the history of political thought, who respectively tried to imagine a republic without a nation (Abbe Sieyes) and a nation without a republic (Johann Gottlieb Fichte). The volume also exposes the undeniable empirical and theoretical shortcomings of the widespread notion that opposes civic and ethnic nationalism, as demonstrated by the historical nationalization of the Republic in France. At the same time, a constructivist analysis of nation as an open political process and a detailed examination of the discursive plurality of contemporary nationalism are developed. Finally, the author proposes a political theory that includes a concept of nation that is neither essentialist nor communitarian but federal and pluralist, and then integrates it into a wider normative proposal of plurinational federalism.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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