Civil Society: Enlightenment Ideal and Demotic Nationalism

L. Paterson

DOI:10.1215/01642472-18-4_65-109

Corpus ID: 143793741

Civil Society: Enlightenment Ideal and Demotic Nationalism

@article{Paterson2000CivilSE,
  title={Civil Society: Enlightenment Ideal and Demotic Nationalism},
  author={L. Paterson},
  journal={Social Text},
  year={2000},
  volume={18},
  pages={109 - 116}
}

L. Paterson

Published 2000

Political Science

Social Text

modern Scotland. The last two decades have seen a flowering of Scottish historiographical, sociological, and literary scholarship, which has allowed us to interpret Scotland in what might be called a “normal” light; this is exemplified in Ross’s article. There was nothing paradoxical or craven about the eschewing of political nationalism in nineteenth-century Scotland. As Ross explains, the bourgeoisie of that period were supremely self-confident about their achievements as partners (with… CONTINUE READING

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