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  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    Subsection 2.Nationalism
    Blattberg Charles
    Patriotic Elaborations: Essays in Practical Philosophy
    Ed. McGill-Queen's University Press , Montreal, Kingston , 2009
    Page 383
    ISBN 9780773534919
    How might we mend the world? Charles Blattberg suggests a "new patriotism," one that reconciles conflict through a form of dialogue that prioritizes conversation over negotiation and the common good over victory. This patriotism can be global as well as local, left as well as right. But it also has its limits, for sometimes we need to stop interpreting the world and start creating it.. In Patriotic Elaborations Blattberg discusses, among other things, how to reconceive the political spectrum, where "deliberative democrats" go wrong, why human rights language is tragically counterproductive, how nationalism is not really secular, how many nations should share a single state, a new approach to the Arab-Israeli conflict, and why Canada might have something to teach about the "war on terror." We also learn about the right way to deny a role to principles in ethics, how to distinguish between the good and the beautiful, the way humour works, the rabbinic nature of modernism, the difference between good, bad, great, and evil, why Plato's dialogues are not really dialogues, and why most philosophers are actually artists instead of philosophers. All this in accessible prose from a genuinely original philosophical voice.
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