Abstract
Popper's attitude to nationalism can be analysed by comparison with the position taken by Hayes and Kohn, who distinguished between a communal, malevolent form of nationalism, and a civic and constitutional variant that could coexist with liberalism. By contrast, Popper welcomes communal affiliations whose diversity he perceives as essential to liberalism, while rejecting sovereignty, whether or not invested in a representative body, as a threat to the liberal open society. This perspective reverses the normative priorities that Hayes and Kohn attribute to liberalism. Its basis is Popper's adherence to a pluralist liberalism, which centres on protecting social ties rather than on representation and state organs. This denotation of liberalism competes with the legalist individualism that Hayes and Kohn identify with liberalism and therefore accommodates nationalism differently.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 208-228 |
Number of pages | 21 |
Journal | Nations and Nationalism |
Volume | 25 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© The author(s) 2018. Nations and Nationalism © ASEN/John Wiley & Sons Ltd 2018
Keywords
- Popper, K. R
- civic nationalism
- ethnic nationalism
- liberalism
- pluralism
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Geography, Planning and Development
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
- Political Science and International Relations