A note on patriotism and utopianism: Response to schrag

Studies in Philosophy and Education

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 197-201

  Callan, Eamonn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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EID: 30744455977     PISSN: 00393746     EISSN: 1573191X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005142220858     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. Nussbaum, Martha with respondents: 1996, For Love of Country: Debating the Limits of Patriotism, Beacon Press, Boston.
2. Cf. Creating Citizens, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1997, pp. 232-233;
3. Nagel, Thomas: 1979, Mortal Questions, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, p. xii. Nagel contrasts his sense of "common citizenship" with mere "patriotic feeling". But the contrast is confusing so far as it might suggest that a cherished shared political identity was not at issue in his response to the war. Without that sense of shared identity, common citizenship could amount to no more that a common legal status, and that could not begin to explain his horror and rage. Presumably, Nagel uses "patriotic feeling" to signify something like "irrational jingoism".
4. Sandel, Michael: 1996, Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 338-351.