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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Smith, Rogers M., 1953- Stories of peoplehood. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2003 (DLC) 2002041695 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Rogers M Smith |
ISBN: | 0511064691 9780511064692 0511058365 9780511058363 0511073151 9780511073151 9780511490347 0511490348 9780521813037 0521813034 9780521520034 0521520037 9786610419685 661041968X 1107133149 9781107133143 1280419687 9781280419683 0511179324 9780511179327 0511203225 9780511203220 0511307098 9780511307096 |
OCLC Number: | 252497886 |
Language Note: | English. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 236 pages) |
Contents: | Part I: Explaining the political role of stories of peoplehood -- 1. Elements of a theory of people-making -- 2. The role of ethically constitutive stories -- Part II: Constructing political peoplehood in morally defensible ways -- 3. Ethically constitutive stories and norms of allegiance -- 4. A pioneering people. |
Series Title: | Contemporary political theory. |
Responsibility: | Rogers M. Smith. |
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'Rogers Smith's fresh and incisive intervention in debates about national solidarity exemplifies the combination of historical depth and theoretical acuity that have made Smith one of the most respected and influential political scientists of his generation.' David A. Hollinger, University of California, Berkeley and author of Postethnic America, 'Rogers M. Smith is the most original political scientist of his generation. His previous scholarship has transformed understanding of the American political tradition. In Stories of Peoplehood: The Politics and Morals of Political Membership, Professor Smith achieves a comparable revision of the idea of nationalist sentiment. In a book of formidable erudition and learning, Smith succeeds brilliantly in reviewing the vast literature on nationalism, reformulating it into a highly innovative and important thesis about peoplehood and demonstrating the analytical purchase of the derived 'ethically constitutive stories' as an approach to building better societies. Written in elegant prose, Smith's argument is illustrated with a dazzling array of examples, historical and contemporary, imagined and real. Many social scientists declaim the need for scholarship engaged with real political and social problems but few succeed as impressively as Rogers Smith does here. This is political science for our times, applying rigorous analysis to compelling moral challenges. I cannot recommend the book too strongly to social scientists, political theorists and historians. Desmond S. King, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of American Government, University of Oxford Read more...

