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Exploring cosmopolitan communitarianist EU citizenship - An analogical reading
Open Insight (2011)
  • Pablo Cristóbal Jiménez Lobeira, PhD, The University of Notre Dame Australia
Abstract
Postnationalists like Habermas have suggested EU citizenship as a way to overcome nationalisms, grounding political belonging on the body of laws that members of the postnational polity generate in the public sphere. Cosmopolitan communitarianist like Bellamy think that EU citizens should form a mixed-commonwealth, with political belonging based on their nations. I will argue that the second option is more desiderable and submit the analogical character of the ensuing ideas of the citizenship, identity and polity. Cosmopolitan communitarianist citizenship promises to better foster the great richness of European national cultural, religious, historical, political, legal and linguistic diversity while still maintaining  a certain unity to form a "mixed" polity.

Keywords
  • Analogical Language; Cosmopolitan Communitarianism; Citizenship; European Identity; Postnationalism.
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Publication Date
2011
DOI
https://doi.org/10.23924/oi.v2n2a2011.pp145-168.29
Citation Information
Pablo Cristóbal Jiménez Lobeira. "Exploring cosmopolitan communitarianist EU citizenship - An analogical reading" Open Insight Vol. 2 Iss. 2 (2011) p. 145 - 168 ISSN: 2395-8936
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/pablo-jimnezlobeira/7/
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