Illusion of the Peoples A Critique of National Self-Determination
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Biografisk notat
Omar Dahbour is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College, CUNY. He coedited The Nationalism Reader (with Micheline Ishay, 1995).An important and persuasive study of the highly influential doctrine of national self-determination. Dahbour subjects claims that groups have a right to a state of their own to lucid philosophical examination, and gives the concept of nationalism the moral scrutiny it deserves.
- Virginia Held, City University of New York,
Chapter 1 Introduction: Nationalism as Belief and as Doctrine
Chapter 2 National Identity and Political Autonomy
Chapter 3 Peoples and Nations in International Law
Chapter 4 Cultural Rights and the Ethics of Self-Determination
Chapter 5 Consent Theory and Democratic Self-Determination
Chapter 6 The Nation-State as an Ethical Community
Chapter 7 The Contradictions of Liberal Nationalism
Chapter 8 Conclusion: Self-Determination Without Nationalism
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