The Inner Frontier: The Place of Nation in the Political Theory of Democracy and Federalism

Table of Contents......Page 13
List of Figures and Tables 13......Page 15
Acknowledgements 15......Page 17
Preface 17......Page 19
CHAPTER 1 - The Nation and the Freedom of the Moderns. A Republic Without the Nation or the Nation Without a Republic: E.J. Sieyès and J.G. Fichte 23......Page 25
1. From the Sovereignty of the Nation to the Constitutional State Without a Sovereign: Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès 24......Page 26
2. From the Sovereignty of the Nation to the Sovereignty of the State: Johann Gottlieb Fichte 36......Page 38
CHAPTER 2 - The Myth of Civic Patriotism: Nationalism in the Shadow of the French Republic 61......Page 63
1. The Founding Fathers: Ernest Renan and Friedrich Meinecke 63......Page 65
2. The Binary Logic of the Dichotomy Between “Ethnic Nations” and “Civic Nations” 68......Page 70
3. The Insurmountable Problems of the Dichotomy Between the “Ethnic Nation” and the “Civic Nation” 72......Page 74
4. The Historical Nationalization of the French Republic  81......Page 83
5. Republicanism, Nationalism and Immigration in Contemporary France 98......Page 100
1. The Nation as a Process 109......Page 111
2. Nations and Nationalisms 113......Page 115
3. The Nation as a Discourse 118......Page 120
4. The Diversity of Nationalisms 124......Page 126
CHAPTER 4 - Nation and Deliberation 135......Page 137
1. The Nation and Modern Identity 137......Page 139
2. Is the Nation a Constituting Component of Democracy? 140......Page 142
3. Reconstructing the Concept of the Nation Through the Apertura of Democratic Theory 145......Page 147
4. The Nation and the Political Demands of Republican Democracy 157......Page 159
1. Introduction: Is a Modern Normative Theory of Federalism Necessary? 175......Page 177
2. Positive and Normative Theories of Federalism 178......Page 180
3. The Veil of Ignorance andthe Federal Principle of Autonomy 186......Page 188
4. Federalism: Contract or Coordination? 194......Page 196
5. A Federal Republican Concept of the Nation 198......Page 200
6. Conclusion: Toward a Normative Theory of Federalism 203......Page 205
Bibliography 207......Page 209