Intricacies of Patriotism

Patriotism is a difficult subject in its own right. Contributors to this book, representing different backgrounds, draw together a picture of patria as a universal value that is indispensable to one's sense of self-awareness, and the identity of groups.

Intricacies of Patriotism presents a selection of concepts of patria along with their corresponding forms of patriotism. The various contributions represent different backgrounds and draw a picture of patria as a universal value that is indispensible to one's sense of self-awareness, and the identity of groups. The different understandings of patria in this collection are examples of employing patriotism to advance the identity of the group, or the individuals within it. While eulogists of cosmopolitanism tend to portray patriotism as anachronistic and irreconcilable with the «man-of-the-world-style», the notion of patria seems to be motivated by a deep concern to preserve patriotic feelings in an undistorted fashion, and to preserve them as a value of utmost importance.

Autorentext

Maciej Hüas is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. His field of research is Catholic social thought and sociology of public sphere. Stanis aw Fel is Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Social Science at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. He is a member of the Association for Catholic Social Ethics in Central Europe in Vienna and on the Scientific Board of Ordo Socialis in Cologne. His field of research is Catholic social thought and economic ethics.

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Contents: Stephen Nathanson: Is Cosmopolitan Anti-Patriotism a Virtue? - Philip Cafaro: Patriotism as a Virtue for the Ecological Age - Robert Gascoigne: Patriotism The Human Family, and a Christian Prophetic Stance - Ryan LaMothe: Imaginary Love: Patriotism as Transitional Phenomena - Pauline Kleingeld: Kant's Cosmopolitan Patriotism - Brian Conway: Patriotism: A Mapping of Theoretical Understandings and Empirical Studies - Monica Martinelli: Beyond the Individual-Society Dualism. Georg Simmel's Lesson - Vito Breda: Constitutional Patriotism and the Scottish Referendum - Maciej Hulas: Patria as Biography. An Argument for Biographical Patriotism.