Between Kin and Cosmopolis: An Ethic of the Nation - Brossura

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Biggar, Nigel

 
9781620325131: Between Kin and Cosmopolis: An Ethic of the Nation
Brossura
ISBN 10: 1620325136 ISBN 13: 9781620325131
Casa editrice: Cascade Books, 2014

Sinossi

The nation-state is here to stay. Thirty years ago it was fashionable to predict its imminent demise, but the sudden break-up of the Soviet Union in the 1990s unshackled long-repressed nationalisms and generated a host of new states. The closer integration of the European Union has given intra-national nationalisms a new lease of life, confirming the viability of small nation-states under a supra-national umbrella-after all, if Ireland and Iceland, then why not Scotland and Catalonia? And then the world stage has seen new and powerful national players moving from the wings to the centre: China, India, and Brazil are full of a sense of growing into their own national destinies, and are in no mood either to dissolve into, or to defer to, some larger body. Nations, nationalisms, and nation-states are persistent facts, but what should we think of them morally? Surely humanity, not a nation, should claim our loyalty? How can it be right to exclude foreigners by policing borders? Can a liberal nation-state thrive without a cohering public orthodoxy? Does national sovereignty confer immunity? Is national separatism always justified? These are urgent questions. Between Kin and Cosmopolis offers timely Christian answers.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Nigel Biggar is Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology, and Director of the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Life at the University of Oxford. His most recent books are In Defence of War (2013) and Behaving in Public: How to Do Christian Ethics (2011).

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Editore
Cascade Books
Data di pubblicazione
2014
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1620325136
ISBN 13 
9781620325131
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
126
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
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9781498205412: Between Kin and Cosmopolis: An Ethic of the Nation

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ISBN 10:  1498205410 ISBN 13:  9781498205412
Casa editrice: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2014
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