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This paper is designed to provide a critical engagement with Michael Billig's seminal thesis of Banal Nationalism (1995), perhaps the most influential study of everyday forms of nationhood. With an increasing number now focusing on the (re) production, dissemination and negotiation of the national through routine texts and practices (cf Foster, 2002 ; Edensor, 2002 ; Madianou, 2005 ; Brubaker et al., 2006 ; Bratsis, 2006 ) and others employing the concept of banality in relation to non-national ( Gorringe, 2006 ) and post-national identities ( Aksoy and Robins, 2002 ; Szerszynski and Urry, 2002 ; Beck, 2006 ; Cram, 2001 ), it would seem like an opportune moment to assess Billig's contribution and also the limits of his approach.

Notes on Contributors -- 1. Michael Slote Encounters Chinese Philosophy: An Introduction, Yong Huang -- 2. Receptivity, Reason, and Responsiveness: From Feeling and Thinking to Action, Karyn Lai -- 3. Michael Slote on Yin/Yang and Chinese Philosophy, Vincent Shen -- 4. Slote's Sentimentalist Theory of the Mind versus A Neo-Confucian Unified Theory of the Mind, JeeLoo Liu -- 5. Two Paths to One Goal: The Unity of the Heart-Mind in Michael Slote and Wang Yangming, Xinzhong Yao and Yan Zhang -- 6. Belief, Desire, and Besire: Slote and Wang Yangming on Moral Motivation, Yong Huang -- 7. The Value of Receptivity and Yin/Yang Clusters for Philosophy, Robin R Wang -- 8. Empathy, Meaning and Approval in the Mencius and Michael Slote, R.A.H. King -- 9. Moral Therapy and the Imperative of Empathy: Mencius Encountering Slote, Tao Jiang -- 10. Slote's Moral Sentimentalism and Confucian Qing-ism, On-cho Ng -- 11. Striving for the Impossible: Early Confucians on Perfect Virtue in an Imperfect World, Aaron Stalnaker -- 12. Virtue Ethics, Symmetry and Confucian Harmonious Appropriation of Self with Others, Qingjie James Wang -- 13. Replies to Commentators, Michael Slote -- Index.

Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury 2012, 261 s., ISBN 978-80-7325-287-8

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