CONTENTS v
PREFACE vii
FOREWORD ix
INTRODUCTION 1
PROLOGUE: Nationalism in Europe: from Its Origins through
Its Late-Nineteenth Century Relations to Democratization by Ronald Calinger 11
PART I. NATIONAL IDENTITY AND NATIONALISM
1. Rethinking Nationalism and Democracy in the Light of
Post-Communist Experience
by Ghia Nodia 39
2. Person and Democracy
by George F. McLean 67
3. Democracy and Nationhood
by Claes G. Ryn 97
4. Reflections on the Nature of Modernity
by David Walsh 107
PART II. THE LIBERAL CRITIQUE OF NATIONALISM
5. Signs of Contradiction: Nationalism and the Search for
a Democratic ‘We’
by Michael Foley and Matthew Carr 125
6. Nationalism and the Problem of Democracy:
a Response to Professor Nodia
by Stephen P. Schneck 147
7. Human Rights and a New Regional Order:
CSCE as a Framework for Cultural Consensus
by David Little 157
8. Nationalism and Human Development
by Richard A. Graham 165
9. Post-Soviet Societies: Chauvinism or Catharsis
by Paul Peachey 169
PART III. THE CRITIQUE OF LIBERALISM
10. Max Scheler’s Personalism and Bourgeois Liberalism:
a Critique of Liberalism as Ideology
by Stephen P. Schneck 181 
11. Enlightenment and Natural Rights
by Richard Kennington 203
12. Democracy and the Ethical Life: A Philosophy of Politics
and Community
by Claes G. Ryn 213
13. Representation in Piaget’s Theory
by Hans G. Furth 231
14. The Status of Principles in Confucian Ethics
by AS. Cua 237
15. Henry Dumery’s Henological Reduction and the Human Act
by David N. Power 259
PART IV. EPISTEMOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF NATIONAL IDENTITY
16. On the Two Systems of the World: Aristotle and Kant
by Kakha Katsitadze 271
17. The Primacy of Practical Reason
by N. V. Chavchavadze 279
18. The Three Types of Relations between Knowledge and Morals
by Tina Bochorishvili 289
19. Morality and Ethics according to Shota Rustaveli’s Epic "The
Knight in the Panther’s Skin"
by Paata Chkheidze 299
20. The Moral Aspect of Philosophy
by Ghia Nodia 307
INDEX 319