Table Of ContentPOLIS, NATION, GLOBAL
COMMUNITY
This book examines the basic tenets of nation, nationalism and citizenship. It
explores the relevance of the nation-state to human freedom and flourishing, as
well as the concept of citizenship that it implies, in contrast to that of the ancient
polis and the “global community.” The volume focusses on the shifting notions of
various political concepts over time to present a systematic understanding of core
concepts such as polis, nation and state from antiquity to the present. It includes
contributions that analyze ancient and modern thought, and sections that address
postmodern and contemporary thinkers, including Aristotle, Cicero, Hobbes,
Locke, Rousseau, Tocqueville, Nietzsche, Arendt, Weil, Grant and Manent.
A comprehensive handbook to introductory politics, this book will be invaluable
to students and teachers of political science, especially political theory, political
philosophy, democracy, political participation and international relations theory.
Ann Ward is Professor of Political Science at Baylor University, USA. Her research
interests are ancient political philosophy, especially Herodotus, Plato and Aristotle,
and nineteenth century political thought. Ward’s most recent book is The Socratic
Individual: Philosophy, Faith and Freedom in a Democratic Age (2020). She is also the
author of Contemplating Friendship in Aristotle’s Ethics (2016), and Herodotus and the
Philosophy of Empire (2008). She has edited Classical Rationalism and the Politics of
Europe (2017), Socrates and Dionysus: Philosophy and Art in Dialogue (2013), Matter
and Form: From Natural Science to Political Philosophy (2009), and Socrates: Reason or
Unreason as the Foundation of European Identity (2007). She has co-edited with Lee
Ward Natural Right and Political Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Catherine Zuckert and
Michael Zuckert (2013), and The Ashgate Research Companion to Federalism (2009).
She has published widely in scholarly journals, including POLIS: The Journal of the
Society for Greek Political Thought, Perspectives on Political Science, European Journal of
Political Theory, and The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms.
POLIS, NATION,
GLOBAL COMMUNITY
The Philosophic Foundations
of Citizenship
Edited by Ann Ward
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CONTENTS
List of Contributors ix
Acknowledgements xii
Introduction: Polis, Nation, Global Community xiii
PART I
Ancient Conceptions of Polis and Empire 1
1 Citizenship and the polis in Aristotle’s Politics 3
Ann Ward
2 Cicero’s empire of wisdom 16
Stephen Patrick Sims
PART II
Modern Birth and Life of the Nation-State 31
3 Defining the law of nations: Revisions of Cicero’s
ius gentium in Suárez, Grotius, and Burke 33
Michael R. Gonzalez
4 The creation of man: Linguistic reformation and the
necessity of the state in the work of Thomas Hobbes 47
Emma Planinc
viii Contents
5 Nation against empire: J.G. Fichte on economic
and cultural nationalism 67
Jeffrey Church
6 Creating sovereignty: Religious authority, the social
contract and the need for political friendship 82
Karen Taliaferro
PART III
The Postmodern Challenge to Nationalism
and State Sovereignty 95
7 Nietzsche against the sovereign individual in the second
essay of the Genealogy 97
Matthew D. Dinan
8 What is a people? 110
Mark Blitz
PART IV
Contemporary Challenges to Global Citizenship 123
9 Rootedness and national identity in the twenty-first century 125
Luma Simms
10 Honor, cynicism, and liberal education 139
Timothy W. Burns
11 Loving one’s own: Pathway to justice or retrograde tribalism? 154
Leah Bradshaw
12 Pierre Manent on the nation, humanity, and politics as the
great mediation 168
Trevor Shelley
Index 183
CONTRIBUTORS
Mark Blitz (A.B. and Ph.D. from Harvard University) is Fletcher Jones Professor of
Political Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College. He is the author of Reason
and Politics: The Nature of Political Phenomena; Conserving Liberty; Plato’s Political
Philosophy; Duty Bound: Responsibility and American Public Life; Heidegger’s “Being and
Time” and the Possibility of Political Philosophy; and is co-editor (with William Kristol)
of Educating the Prince. He served during the Reagan administration as Associate
Director of the United States Information Agency, where he was the senior United
States official in charge of educational and cultural programs abroad, and as a senior
professional staff member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. He has
been Vice President of the Hudson Institute, and has taught political philosophy at
Harvard University and at the University of Pennsylvania.
Leah Bradshaw is Professor of Political Science at Brock University in Canada.
Much of her career has been focused on the work of Hannah Arendt, and on
the distinction between classical and modern political thought. Work on this lat-
ter theme includes publications on empire, tyranny, oligarchy, and rights. More
recent work has turned to consideration on citizenship, multiculturalism and cos-
mopolitanism. She co-edited with David Tabachnik Citizenship and Multiculturalism
in Western Liberal Democracies (2017).
Timothy W. Burns is Professor of Political Science at Baylor University. He is the
author of Shakespeare’s Political Wisdom and of Leo Strauss on Democracy, Technology,
and Liberal Education; co-author (with Thomas L. Pangle) of Introduction to Political
Philosophy; and editor of four collections of essays. He has published numerous
articles on thinkers from Homer to Fukuyama. He is also co-editor (with Thomas
L.Pangle) of the “Recovering Political Philosophy” series, and editor-in-chief of
Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy.
