Nationalism, Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism in Political Thought, 19th–20th Centuries
Georgios Varouxakis
This course provides students with an in-depth understanding of what some of the most important political thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries thought and wrote about the phenomena and concepts referred to as ‘nationalism’, ‘patriotism’ and ‘cosmopolitanism’. Thinkers focused upon include Immanuel Kant, Jeremy Bentham, J. G. Fichte, John Stuart Mill, Walter Bagehot, John [Lord] Acton, Giuseppe Mazzini, Alexis de Tocqueville, Ernest Renan, Thomas Hill Green, Henry Sidgwick, Karl Marx, Herbert Spencer, Rabindranath Tagore, L. T. Hobhouse, Alfred Zimmern, Otto Bauer, Charles Maurras, Harold Laski, Bertrand Russell, Elie Kedourie, John Plamenatz, Isaiah Berlin. The emphasis of the module is not on ‘nationalist’ or ‘cosmopolitan’ thinkers as such, but on what political thinkers thought and wrote about the nation, nationalism, internationalism, patriotism and cosmopolitanism between the aftermath of the French Revolution and the advent of the Cold War.