The nation-state is the only game in town; and, since we only have a conception of finite games, this game has winners and losers. (As an aside, it is not accidental that the United Stats, which embodies the idea of the nation-state as well as any other country, remains incapable of comprehending games that are [...]
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*Thesis Three: Postcolonialism’s critique of the nation-state remains inadequate
Posted in Globalization and Cultural Politics, Postcolonial Thought, The Politics of Culture, tagged Appiah, China and India in modern discourse, citizenship, civilizational frameworks, civilizational ties between India & China, commons, cosmopolitanism, ethics of the stranger, finite and infinite games, James Carse, modern civilization and finite games, nation-state vs. civilization, politics of the nation-state, Rabindranath Tagore, Tagore's Nationalism (1917), world cities on December 13, 2010 | 5 Comments »
