Theorizing nationalism (State University of New York Press, 1999)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: nationalism's challenge to political philosophy / Ronald Beiner. -- Nationalism / John Dunn. -- Theorizing nationalism (normatively): the first steps / Wayne Norman. -- Theoretical difficulties in the study of nationalism / Yael Tamir. -- Nationalism and the narcissism of minor differences / Michael Ignatieff. -- The myth of the civic nation / Bernard Yack. -- Cultural nationalism, neither ethnic nor civic / Kai Nielsen. -- Misunderstanding nationalism / Will Kymlicka. -- Modernity and cultural vulnerability: should ethnicity be privileged / Brian Walker. -- How liberal can nationalism be? / Judith Lichtenberg. -- Nation and nationalism / Neil MacCormick. -- The new tribalism: notes on a difficult problem / Michael Walzer. -- Nationalism and modernity / Charles Taylor. -- Self-government revisited / Brian Barry. -- The first person plural / Roger Scruton. -- The incoherence of nationalism / Bhikhu Parekh
Theorizing Nationalism directly addresses the normative dimensions of nationalism. Some of the themes it discusses are the following whether there is a "right" to collective self-determination, the relationship between nationalism and modernity, whether nationalism and liberalism can be reconciled, whether there is a theoretically legitimate distinction between so-called civic and ethnic versions of nationalism, and the "existential" attractiveness of nationalism