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Community of Citizens - On the Modern Idea of Nationality (Hardcover)
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Community of Citizens - On the Modern Idea of Nationality (Hardcover)
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In this critically acclaimed work, for which she was awarded the
Prix de L'Assemblee Nationale in 1994, sociologist Dominique
Schnapper offers a learned and concise antidote to contemporary
assaults on the nation. Schnapper's arguments on behalf of the
modern nation represent at once a learned history of the national
ideal, a powerful rejoinder to its contemporary critics, and a
masterful essay in the sociological tradition of Ernest Renan,
Alexis de Tocqueville, Emile Durkheim, and Raymond Aron. If
Schnapper asserts, the fate of liberal democracy is coterminous
with that of the national ideal, then the nation's fate-and the
answer to this question-must be of pressing interest to us all.
Reflecting deeply on both the nation's past and future, Schnapper
places her hopes in what she terms "the community of citizens." No
mere exercise in sociological abstraction, Schnapper's case for the
nation also entails a practical political objective. In a time of
radical difference, the national ideal may be the last, great
social unifier. This book deserves a place alongside the works of
Elie Kedourie, Ernest Gellner, Anthony Smith, and other classics in
the study of nationalism and nationality. This work will be of
interest to sociologists, historians, and political scientists
alike.
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