Product Description: La nación moderna es un proyecto político singular. Nacida en el siglo XVIII, su primera función es integrar a todos los individuos en la vida de una comunidad política y defenderla en la escena internacional. La nación pretende ser una comunidad ideal de ciudadanos iguales: ignora las particularidades étnicas, regionales...read more

Product Description: Democracy posits the universality of the equality principle: a community of citizens is governed by the principle of the formal equality of all individuals, whatever their real social, cultural, or other inequalities. Democratization, on the other hand, is motivated by the ambition of ensuring the real equality of citizens, and not simply their formal equality...read more

Product Description: In this critically acclaimed work, for which she was awarded the Prix de L'Assemblee Nationale in 1994, sociologist Dominique Schnapper offers a learned and concise antidote to contemporary assaults on the nation. Schnapper's arguments on behalf of the modern nation represent at once a learned history of the national ideal, a powerful rejoinder to its contemporary critics, and a masterful essay in the sociological tradition of Ernest Renan, Alexis de Tocqueville, Emile Durkheim, and Raymond Aron...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By examining the social conditions of museum practices, this book shows that cultivated taste is not a natural gift but a socially inculcated disposition which is distributed unevenly, and which predisposes some to distinguish themselves through their love of art, while others are deprived of it.

Product Description: For Muslims politics and religion are inseparable, whereas European states with their Christian democracies consider this separation as one of their prime principles. Therefore, how can there be an acceptable way of integrating Muslims? The studies gathered here show the extraordinary diversity of both national attitudes and governmental policies: France claims the assimilation of individuals, while Germany rejects many forms of integration...read more