Uriel Abulof

Mortality and Morality of Nations (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Standing at the edge of life's abyss, we seek meaningful order. We commonly find this 'symbolic immortality' in religion, civilization, state and nation. What happens, however, when the nation itself appears mortal? The Mortality and Morality of Nations seeks to answer this question, theoretically and empirically. It argues that mortality makes morality, and right makes might; the nation's sense of a looming abyss informs its quest for a higher moral ground, which, if reached, can bolster its vitality. The book investigates nationalism's promise of moral immortality and its limitations via three case studies: French Canadians, Israeli Jews, and Afrikaners. All three have been insecure about the validity of their identity or the viability of their polity, or both. They have sought partial redress in existential self-legitimation: by the nation, of the nation and for the nation's very existence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316365755
• Artikelnr.: 53003924

Autorenporträt

Uriel Abulof is an Assistant Professor of Politics at Tel-Aviv University and a senior research fellow at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs/Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination (LISD). He is the author of Living on the Edge: The Existential Uncertainty of Zionism, which won the Bahat Prize, Israel's most prestigious academic book award. Abulof studies political legitimation, nationalism and ethnic conflicts. His articles have appeared in journals such as International Studies Quarterly, International Political Sociology, Nations and Nationalism, The British Journal of Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies and International Politics.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Preface
Part II. Introduction: 1. Theory
2. Case studies
Part III. Theory: 3. Meaning
4. Mortality
5. Morality
6. Liberty
7. Language
Part IV. The French Canadians: 8. The Canadiens: the emergence of an endangered ethnie
9. The French Canadians: the rise and demise of ethno-religionism
10. The Québécois: the rise and demise of ethnonationalism
Part V. Jews and Zionists: 11. Ontological insecurity: Jewish identity in modernity
12. Epistemic insecurity: Jewish and Zionist survival in question
13. Existential threats: Zionism's 'holes in the net'
14. Existential threads: the lifelines of Zionism
Part VI. The Afrikaners: 15. Ontological insecurity: the birth of the Afrikaner ethnie
16. Epistemic insecurity: Afrikaner survival in question
17. Existential threats: Afrikanerdom's 'holes in the net'
18. Existential threads: the lifelines of Afrikanerdom
19. The twilight of apartheid and its aftermath.