23 janvier 2013
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Nenad Miscevic, « Chapter sixteen. The anti-cosmopolitan argument », Central European University Press, ID : 10670/1.dehg9s
Ethno-cultural claims on behalf of one’s own culture are often put in terms of people trying to preserve the “uniqueness of their communal life” (Tamir, 1993, 127). It is assumed that every ethnic group—but only that one—is thus unique. The claim is then favorably contrasted with cosmopolitan claims: when a cultural ethno-nationalist claims the centrality of his or her culture he or she is often taken (by philosophers) to be opposing some imaginary counter-claim to the effect that all other c...