Beschreibung:
Richard Kearney proposes the overcoming of this 'sovereignty neurosis', requiring not only a recasting of the political identity of Ireland, but also a re-imagining of its cultural, literary and philosophical heritage. Only then can the political knots of nationalism and national identity be unravelled.
Introduction: Beyond the nation-state Part I Politics 1 Beyond sovereignty 2 Ideas of a republic 3 Genealogy of the republic 4 Postnationalism and postmodernity 5 Rethinking Ireland Part II Culture 6 The fifth province: Between the local and the global 7 Myths of motherland 8 Myth and nation in modern Irish poetry Part III Philosophy 9 George Berkeley: We Irish think otherwise 1110 John Toland: An Irish philosopher? 11 John Tyndall Irish science Postscript: Towards a postnationalist Ireland