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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- A Personal Note -- PART I: THE RETURN OF HISTORY -- 1 The New Nationalism -- 2 Never Say Never -- 3 Untidy Compromises -- 4 The Two Faces of Janus -- 5 Nutopia -- PART II: LOVE AND MARRIAGE: THE VIRTUES OF NATIONALISM -- 6 Living beyond Our Psychological Means -- 7 Nation Building -- 8 National Creativity -- 9 This Place We Call Home -- 10 La Vie Quotidian -- 11 Subjects into Citizens -- 12 A Short History of the Cross-Class Coalition -- PART III: A DIVIDED HOUSE -- 13 The Breakdown of the Cross-Class Coalition -- 14 One Nation, Divided, under Stress -- 15 The Elephant in the Room -- 16 The Birth of a Nationalist -- 17 The Nationalism of the Vulnerable -- 18 The Nationalism of the Affluent -- PART IV: A NEW SOCIAL CONTRACT -- 19 Liberal Nationalism -- 20 This Is the Time -- 21 A Race to the Bottom -- Notes -- Index

Liberal nationalism is contrasted with Judith Shklar's idea of liberals as antinationalists. It is argued that, save for some radical exceptions, most liberals today are liberal nationalists who are able to accommodate notions of distributive justice, consent, social responsibility, membership, & immigration. The contention against antinationalistic liberalism centers on a more comprehensive definition of fear, antinationalism's definitive aspect. By expanding the definition of fear, it is shown how national liberalism actually encompasses the concept of postnationalistic fear, which arises only after nationalistic aspirations. A hierarchy of fears is established: religious & secular, statelessness, defenselessness, sensations of being silenced, & lacking status. It is argued that the liberal state must take on the two primary roles of ending physical cruelty & alleviating social fears. D. Bajo

This article reviews three recently published books: Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities, Liah Greenfeld's Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity, and Anthony D. Smith's National Identity. It examines these books in search of clues that explain the enigma of nationalism: What are the sources of the mysterious vitality of nationalism? Why does nationalism provide the most compelling identity myth in the modern world? Why can it motivate individuals more than any other political force? This inquiry reveals an irony attendant upon the study of nationalism: the more we learn about the emergence of nationalism, the less credible is the nationalist pretense that nations are natural, continuous communities of fate. Yet it is precisely this image of nationalism that nurtures the unique power of nationalism. The power of nationalism thus seems to be embedded in self-deception.