Passion and Paradox: Intellectuals Confront the National Question

by Joan Cocks

From Kosovo to Qu bec, Ireland to East Timor, nationalism has been a recurrent topic of intense debate. It has been condemned as a source of hatred and war, yet embraced for stimulating community feeling and collective freedom. Joan Cocks explores the power, danger, and allure of nationalism by examining its place in the thought of eight politically engaged intellectuals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: the antagonist of capital, Karl...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691074682
• ISBN13: 9780691074689
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"