Why Nationalism Audiobook (Free)

Why nationalism is a permanent political force-and how it could be harnessed once again for liberal ends

All over the world today, nationalism is back-and it’s often deeply troubling. Populist politicians exploit nationalism for authoritarian, chauvinistic, racist, and xenophobic purposes, reinforcing the look at that it’s fundamentally reactionary and antidemocratic. But Yael (Yuli) Tamir makes a separate argument for an extremely different kind of nationalism-one that revives its participatory, about Why Nationalism creative, and egalitarian virtues, answers lots of the problems caused by neoliberalism and hyperglobalism, and is vital to democracy at its greatest. In Why Nationalism, she explains why it really is more important than ever before for the Still left to recognize these qualities of nationalism, to reclaim it from right-wing extremists, and to redirect its capacity to intensifying ends.

Far from as an bad drive, nationalism’s power is based on its ability to empower individuals and answer basic human needs. Using it to reproduce cross-class coalitions will make sure that all residents share essential ethnic, political, and economic goods. Moving emphasis from your global towards the national and placing one’s nation initial is not a means of advocating national supremacy but of redistributing responsibilities and posting benefits in a more democratic and just way. To make the situation for the liberal and democratic nationalism, Tamir also provides a powerful original account from the ways in which neoliberalism and hyperglobalism have allowed today’s Right to co-opt nationalism for its own purposes.

Provocative and hopeful, Why Nationalism is a timely and important rethinking of the defining feature of our politics.