Equality and nationality

Politics and Society

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 93-110

  Sypnowich, Christine ^a  

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References (47)

1. The title of Tamás's talk at the Philosophy Department, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada in February 1994. Tamás is a philosopher, former dissident and member of the Liberal Opposition in Hungary.
2. G. M. Tamás, "Socialism, Capitalism and Modernity," Journal of Democracy 3 (July 1992): 71.
3. Ibid., 67.
4. See selections by Bauer and Renner in Austro-Marxism, edited by T. Bottomore and P. Goode, introduction by T. Bottomore (Oxford: Clarendon, 1978).
5. "Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts," Marx and Engels Collected Works, vol. 3 (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1975), 298.
6. I am grateful to the Russian philosopher Felix Mikhailov for pointing this out. Aspects of the Soviet empire such as these are fascinating for Canadians (like myself), coming from a society much preoccupied with questions of language.
7. Tamás, "A Legacy of Empire," Wilson Quarterly 18 (Winter 1994): 79.
8. Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism (Oxford: Blackwell, 1983), 121. See also Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (London: Verso 1983), 12.
9. Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism (Oxford: Blackwell, 1983), 121. See also Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (London: Verso 1983), 12.
10. Tamás, "A Legacy of Empire," 79.
11. See Christine Sypnowich, Concept of Socialist Law (Oxford: Clarendon, 1990).
12. Tamás, "Socialism, Capitalism and Modernity," 69.
13. Gellner, Nations and Nationalism, 122.
14. This is one of the different possible responses to political disappointment poignantly discussed by G. A. Cohen in "The Future of a Disillusion," New Left Review 190 (November-December 1992).
15. Tamás, "Old Enemies and New: A Philosophic Postscript to Nationalism," Studies in East European Thought 46 (June 1993):116-17.
16. See Rorty, "Postmodern Bourgeois Liberalism," Journal of Philosophy 80 (1983); Contingency, Irony and Solidarity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
17. See Rorty, "Postmodern Bourgeois Liberalism," Journal of Philosophy 80 (1983); Contingency, Irony and Solidarity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
18. See Sypnowich, "Some Disquiet about Difference," Praxis International 13 (July 1993).
19. Ernesto Laclau, "God Only Knows," Marxism Today, December 1991, 57.
20. Tamás, for all his venom against Rorty, is something of an intellectual bedfellow insofar as he subscribes to a liberal politics whose primary value is personal liberty. Tamás describes his political trajectory as traveling from a kind of anarchist leftism to what he calls a "modern" or "liberal" conservative position characterized by a "libertarian refusal of state interference." "Farewell to the Left," East European Politics and Societies 5 (Winter 1991): 104-5.
21. Joseph Raz, "Multiculturalism: A Liberal Perspective," Ethics in the Public Domain (Oxford: Clarendon, 1994), 174-75.
22. Ibid., 160-62.
23. Raz, "National Self-Determination," in Ethics in the Public Domain.
24. Will Kymlicka, Liberalism, Community and Culture (Oxford: Clarendon, 1990), 195, chap. 4. See G. A. Cohen, "Multiculturalism and Expensive Taste" (unpublished manuscript), 27.
25. Will Kymlicka, Liberalism, Community and Culture (Oxford: Clarendon, 1990), 195, chap. 4. See G. A. Cohen, "Multiculturalism and Expensive Taste" (unpublished manuscript), 27.
26. For example, in conversation Tamás dismissed concerns about whether Hungary's Liberal Opposition would provide health insurance or unemployment benefits with an airy reference to the need to introduce a market economy first (shades of the "stagism" of classical Marxism; see E. Laclau and C. Mouffe, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy [London: Verso, 1985]). The self-styled "neo-Whig" did not, however, dismiss such policies altogether.
27. Ronald Dworkin, "Liberalism," in S. Hampshire, ed., Public and Private Morality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978), 132.
28. Ibid., 132-33.
29. Raz, "Multiculturalism," 175.
30. See Lynne Segal, "Whose Left? Socialism, Feminism and the Future," New Left Review 185 (January-February 1991):185.
31. See Michael Ignatieff's controversial depiction of Québecois nationalism in Blood and Belonging (London: Vintage, 1994).
32. Raz, "National Self-Determination," 119-25.
33. Ibid., 127.
34. The right of exit is offered by Raz in his discussion of multiculturalism and by Kymlicka in his dicussion of inegalitarian practices on the part of self-governing aboriginal communities.
35. Raz's term; see "Multiculturalism," 171-72.
36. See Charles Taylor, Multiculturalism and the "Politics of Recognition" (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992), 71.
37. Otto Bauer, "The Concept of the Nation," in Austro-Marxism, 107.
38. Anderson, Imagined Communities, 15.
39. See T. E. Marshall, Citizenship and Social Class and Other Essays (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1950).
40. David Miller, "The Ethical Significance of Nationality," Ethics 98 (July 1988): 661-62.
41. Tamás, "Farewell to the Left," 108.
42. John Rawls, Political Liberalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993), 187-90.
43. Raz, The Morality of Freedom (Oxford: Clarendon, 1986), 133.
44. Stephen Mulhall and Adam Swift note the egalitarian implications of Raz's position in Liberals and Communitarians (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992), 278.
45. The homogenization of cultures as a result of imperialism - itself justified by some appeal to national interest - was presciently anticipated in 1917 by Renner; see Karl Renner, "The Development of the National Idea," in Austro-Marxism, 124-25.
46. Tamás, "Socialism, Capitalism and Modernity," 73.
47. This is what Eric Hobsbawm calls the twentieth century in "Barbarism: A User's Guide," New Left Review 296 (July/August 1994).