nationalism – manwithoutqualities

Browse by:

September 6, 2017nationalism

What is a Nation in Nationalism?

The very excellent Efriam Podoksik has a timely paper published in The Journal of Political Philosophy: Volume 25, Number 3, 2017, pp. 303–323. Challenging this dichotomy I suggested a tripartite scheme where nation as a self-sufficient high-culture community is the centre, whereas civic community and ethnic group are its peripheral mutations. Contrary to the common…

January 21, 2012aesthetics, mishima, nationalism, paul schrader, philosophy and literature

Mishima

One of my favourite philosophically orientated novelists is Mishima. I can’t attest to the reliability of this bio-sketch but it’s a start. There is not much scholarly literature on Mishima but here is an appreciation in, of all places, the British Journal of Psychiatry. Paul Schrader made a superb attempt at expressing Mishima’s thinking (insofar as…

July 27, 2010Edward Said, Ernest Gellner, Isaiah Berlin, liberty, London School of Economics, nationalism, oakeshott, philosophy, philosophy of social science, political philosophy, social constructivism, social epistemology, sociology

Ernest Gellner

Here is a review of an intellectual biography of Ernest Gellner.