Readings (Rizal))

Initial readings for POL 264

I'll be discussing on January 21, 2015.  The meeting after that, we start class discourse.  POl 264 is a political philosophy course, and as such, I encourage the class to be one discursive body, where students who are called to recite (as announced before, we start from the back row) stimulate a group critical discussion on the current topic.  Hence, students called to recite will propose and reason out (apologia) his or her ideas, in the form of arguments, on the topic.  Other classmates may volunteer to support (with their own apology) or critique (discuss a polemic) the idea.

Main Reading:  Civic Nationalism and the Nation State

http://www.taraskuzio.net/Nation%20and%20State%20Building_files/NationalismChapter.pdf

Supplemental Reading: The Concept of Nationalism

http://prutland.web.wesleyan.edu/Documents/Nationalism.pdf