Professional paper
Debating Nationalism: Philosophical Viewpoints on Nationalism – 19th and 20th Century (Dis)agreement
Bojana Klepač Pogrmilović
; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
First part of the article deals with the concept of nationalism viewed by early, XIX century liberal nationalists. Main points on concept of nationality from the two contemporaries, English John Stuart Mill and French Ernst Renan, will be presented. In the second part, Ellie Kedouries’s understanding of nationalism through four steps is questioned and analyzed. Third part deals with main disagreements/debates on nationalism; one from XIX century – John Stuart Mill vs Lord Acton and the other is XX century dissent whose main actors are Kedourie and Hannah Arendt. Last part aims to show (dis)agreements upon the role of the French Revolution in creation of nationalism among all presented philosophers as a certain trigger that every one pulls when perceiving nationalism.
Keywords
Elie Kedourie; Ernst Renan; French Revolution; Hannah Arendt; Lord Acton; John Stuart Mill; multinational state; nation; nationalism
Hrčak ID:
77470
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Publication date:
8.2.2012.
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