Nationalism and the Moral Psychology of Community

Informationen zum Autor Bernard Yack is the Lerman-Neubauer Professor of Democracy in the Department of Politics at Brandeis University. He is the author of several books! including The Problems of a Political Animal and Liberalism without Illusions. Klappentext How is it that the nation! a relatively old form of community! has risen to such prominence in an era so strongly identified with the individual? The author argues that it is the inadequacy of our understanding of community - and especially the moral psychology that animates it - that has made this question so difficult to answer. Zusammenfassung How is it that the nation! a relatively old form of community! has risen to such prominence in an era so strongly identified with the individual? The author argues that it is the inadequacy of our understanding of community - and especially the moral psychology that animates it - that has made this question so difficult to answer.

Product details

• Authors: Bernard Yack
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.05.2012
• EAN: 9780226944678
• ISBN: 978-0-226-94467-8
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; Nationalism, Nationalism and nationalist ideologies and movements