Concept
The Nation
Overview
American weekly magazine on left politics and culture
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
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The difference of form is really shared by every degree of the administration, and it is only by including every degree that you really know the difference. In one country you begin to feel the spirit of the minister in the manoeuvres of his underlings; in another you must see the election of members of parliament to see if the nation is really free; in each and every country, he who has only seen the towns cannot…
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile
Names The Nation several times; states what The Nation is.
It matters not what rank he has, what revenues or garnitures: the requisite thing is, that he have a tongue which others will listen to; this and nothing more is requisite. The nation is governed by all that has tongue in the nation: Democracy is virtually _there_. Add only, that whatsoever power exists will have itself, by and by, organised; working secretly under bandages, obscurations, obstructions, it will never…
Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, and
States what The Nation is; names The Nation several times.
In addition to this, the Parliament has an office not inferior even to this in importance; to be at once the nation's Committee of Grievances and its Congress of Opinions; an arena in which not only the general opinion of the nation, but that of every section of it, and, as far as possible, of every eminent individual whom it contains, can produce itself in full light and challenge discussion; where every person in…
John Stuart Mill, Considerations on Representative Government
Names The Nation several times; opens on The Nation.
Philosophers who discussed The Nation
- Arthur Danto
- Giordano Bruno
- Roland Barthes
- David Ray Griffin
- Christopher Hitchens
- Susan Sontag
- Ian Hacking
- Bertrand Russell
- Jerry Fodor
- Jacques Derrida
- Cornel West
- Charles Sanders Peirce
- Catharine A. MacKinnon
- Kenneth Burke
- Hannah Arendt
- Chauncey Wright
- Sheldon Wolin
Related ideas
- Washington, D.C.
- Fascism
- Joseph Stalin
- South Africa
- London
- Liberalism
- New Deal
- Meritocracy
- Architecture
- Christopher Hitchens
- President of the United States
- United States Senate
- Progressivism
- Soviet Union
- Socialism
- Los Angeles Times
- The New York Times
- United Nations
- Abolitionism in the United States
- World War I
- Adrienne Rich
- Free trade
- Routledge
- American Civil War
Place in the tradition
Part of Bertrand Russell.