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Search results for: federative concept

state-nation as nation-state

January 21, 2014 | Posted in Featured, History, Neo-Imperialism, notes, Philosophy | Tagged with: Declinism, federative concept, nation-state, sacrifice, sovereignty, state-nation, universalism | 5 Comments ↓

Its notion turns the whole world upside down, since the ideal state-nation is the universal homogeneous state, the world state or the democracy whose demos would be all of humankind, not any particular state within history but the action of history itself under a declared progressively “federative concept.”

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An American Conservative Declinism

March 6, 2014 | Posted in Neo-Imperialism, notes, Politics | Tagged with: Americanism, Conservatism, Crimea Crisis, Liberal Internationalism | No Comments ↓

[View the story “An American Conservative Declinism” on Storify] (Text version follows)

On the Neo-Imperial Interest

March 22, 2013 | Posted in History, International Relations, Philosophy, Politics, The Exception | Tagged with: Americanism, Anti-Americanist Conservatism, exceptionalism, Neo-Conservatism, neo-imperialism, The Exception | 28 Comments ↓

“It is not possible to be rid of it either.”

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Note on American Exceptionalism in Crisis

August 9, 2012 | Posted in History, Neo-Imperialism, Philosophy, Politics, US History | Tagged with: American Exceptionalism | 1 Comment ↓

We may need to consider that what Daniel Larison calls “hegemonism” is on some level embedded within the American project itself, its revolutionary liberalism, its Enlightenment universalism, its Jeffersonian “federative” imperialism. A divorce from such pretensions, or even a declaration of their fulfillment and therefore their obsolescence, does not merely require but likely entails, is likely already entailing, a political and economic crisis corresponding to the deeper conceptual or ideological crisis. Even a re-conception of liberal-universalism, a notion of some truer realization of its essence, leaves the fate of American nationalism, and of the American nation, meaning the real lives of its people, or the real meaning of the lives of its people, in question. The transformation to a self-understanding of “one country just like the others” might still be experienced as a greatest loss, spiritual as well as material, by many or in some sense all Americans, even the ones promoting it and perhaps able to look at the world it creates and call it good and necessary.

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Holy American Major League of Nations (Notes on Baseball and the Re-De-Nationalization of Americanism)

April 1, 2012 | Posted in Featured, Future History, Sports, US History, Yoga | Tagged with: America, American Idea, Americanism, Anti-Federalism, baseball, Borat, Constitution, Democratic Republican, Federalism, Francis Scott Key, Francis Scott Smith Miller, Gordon Wood, Ideal Americanism, Jefferson, Kazakhstan, Madison, Metonymy, National Anthem, Nationalism, Pennsylvania, Scott Smith Miller, Star-Spangled Banner, War of 1812, Whiskey Rebellion, Woodrow Wilson, Yoga | 5 Comments ↓

It welcomed the tests of time/
Like an eternal friend,/
Our country is blessed,/
Our country is such!

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Nine thoughts for discussion with a pacifist-universalist

March 16, 2012 | Posted in Philosophy, Religion | | 15 Comments ↓

The absolute universal verges on nothingness (is suspended in nothingness) in psychology as well as philosophy, in science as well as religion, mathematics as well as history – is the point/merely virtual or non-existent point where modes of logic and its alternatives become “one”/”nothing,” and where nothing in modern and so-called “post-modern” thought surpasses the thought of the ancients, whether called philosophers or called prophets.

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