Open AccessOtto Bauer: The idea of nation as a plural community and the question of territorial and non-territorial autonomy
Author(s) -
Ramón Máiz,
Mariana Pereira
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
filozofija i društvo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2334-8577
pISSN - 0353-5738
DOI - 10.2298/fid2003287m
Subject(s) - plural , autonomy , politics , sociology , democracy , state (computer science) , marxist philosophy , work (physics) , accommodation , environmental ethics , dialectic , political economy , political science , social science , epistemology , law , philosophy , mechanical engineering , linguistics , neuroscience , computer science , biology , engineering , algorithm
This article presents a detailed analysis of the concept of nation in the work of Austro-Marxist Otto Bauer. In his view, the nation is conceived as an evolutionary process of political, open and plural construction. His work also unravels the connections of nation with a plurinational democratic state, which was at the time a novel political and institutional vision. The article argues that his work is very relevant today, with rising complexity of the new contexts of global society and the multiplication of migrations and refugees; and the need to respond through an accommodation of minorities through mechanisms of territorial and non-territorial autonomy. Much of these concerns form the substance of Otto Bauer?s work.