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The Mortality and Morality of Nations (Paperback)
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The Mortality and Morality of Nations (Paperback)
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Standing at the edge of life's abyss, we seek meaningful order. We
commonly find this 'symbolic immortality' in religion,
civilization, state and nation. What happens, however, when the
nation itself appears mortal? The Mortality and Morality of Nations
seeks to answer this question, theoretically and empirically. It
argues that mortality makes morality, and right makes might; the
nation's sense of a looming abyss informs its quest for a higher
moral ground, which, if reached, can bolster its vitality. The book
investigates nationalism's promise of moral immortality and its
limitations via three case studies: French Canadians, Israeli Jews,
and Afrikaners. All three have been insecure about the validity of
their identity or the viability of their polity, or both. They have
sought partial redress in existential self-legitimation: by the
nation, of the nation and for the nation's very existence.
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