Table of Contents

Introduction

Part 1: Citizenship versus Liberalism

1 Liberalism, Nationalism, Citizenship: Three Models of Political Community

2 The Fetish of Individuality: Richard Flathman's Willfully Liberal Politics

3 Civic Resources in a Liberal Society: “Thick” and “Thin” Versions of Liberalism

4 From Community to Citizenship: The Quest for a Post-Liberal Public Philosophy

5 Is There Such a Thing As a Communitarian Political Philosophy?

Part 2: Citizenship versus Nationalism

6 Nationalism's Challenge to Political Philosophy

7 Reflections of a Diaspora Jew in Israel

8 Hannah Arendt As a Critic of Nationalism

9 National Self-Determination: Some Cautionary Remarks on the Rhetoric of Rights

10 Citizenship and Nationalism: Is Canada a “Real Country”?

11 1989: Nationalism, Internationalism, and the Nairn-Hobsbawm Debate

12 Civicism between Nationalism and Globalism

Index

Promotional Information

A brilliant, ambitious rethinking of the nature of political community and the challenges to modern citizenship by one of Canada's foremost political scientists.

About the Author

Ronald Beiner is Graduate Director and Associate Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto.

Reviews

"A clearly written book, full of incisive insights, and a welcome contribution to the debate. Beiner argues for a political community that is inclusive of all citizens and aims toward developing a collective good; this is a vision that is all too quickly lost in the arguments of nationalists, multiculturalists, and liberals." - Jeffrey Spinner-Halev, author of The Boundaries of Citizenship: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in the Liberal State