Dublin And Cultural Nationalism

Ascription,identity and subject nowadays become the core of certain theories. These themes which Isaiah Berlin thought about has been discussed fully already. During Berlin's life, he has been pondering the age.Therefore, it's inevitably to use Berlin's thoughts and his particular life experience for reference. They will be instructive to us when we meditate this world and our lives.The topic of this paper is "Berlin and culture-nationalism". It trys to approach Berlin's essence ,as well as culture-nationalism. Berlin has been paid great attention to the fate of Jewry all his life. That issue means life, value, and thought to him. If we use culture-nationalism as the entrance, it will helps us to understand Berlin whoes "thoughts belong to biography". So he is an important figure to deepen our meditation on the culture-nationalism.The Chapter 1 discusses which position did the culture-nationalism occupied in Berlin's system. Berlin was not enter this issue at random, it has deep origin in his thoughts. we will according to Berlin's clue to analyse the underground of his culture-nationalism.The Chapter 2 cards the history of the study on nationalism. This will tell us the meaning of Berlin's culture-nationalism. The nationalism is the modernity's concomitant. If we cast back the history , we can find its resource in the origin of modernity. Through this , we can sum up the gain and loss of the modernity.The Chapter 3 summarizes Berlin's basic viewpoints on the culture-nationalism, differentiates and analysediscriminates the feeling of nation and the nationalism, distinguishes the two sorts of nationalism.The Chapter 4 discusses the origin of Berlin's culture-nationalism . This particular concept firstly means the rebound to the memory of hurt, it was came up in the crisis of identity during the age of romanticism when some given intelligentsia add fuel to the fire successfully.The Chapter 5 focuses on Berlin's "ascription", pays attention to the relation between individual's freedom and the ascription of Ethnicity.Finally is the latter end. We view Berlin's culture-nationalism in the context of Culture study and polyculturalism, face the crytic conflict of value backside the culture-nationalism, after all of this , we summarize our situation in the modernity.