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On Movember, Tim Soutphommasane and civics

By Mark Bahnisch on November 20, 2009

A while back I wrote – in rather skeptical vein – about Tim Soutphommasane’s claim that progressives should be reclaiming patriotism. Guy Rundle has now reviewed Soutphommasane’s book, Reclaiming Patriotism: nation building for Australian progressives, for Crikey (of which more [...]

Posted in Australiana, Culture, History, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Australian patriotism, authoritarian personality, Bowling Alone, care, Christopher Lasch, civic virtue, civics, community, compassion, constitutional democracy, Culture, Culture of Narcissism, Ethics, gender, Guy Rundle, Habermas, ideology, left, Movember, narcisstic personality, patriotism, political philosophy, political theory, progressives, Robert Putnam, social action, social class, Sociology, status, Tim Soutphommasane, voluntarism | 61 Responses

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