ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes the direction of the revision of patriotism. Patriotism comprises of constitutional and ethnic elements. Both can be approached from the affective perspective; from the ethico-political perspective of futurity; from the historical perspective; and from the moral perspective. Constitutional patriotism expresses an affirmative stance on the part of the members of supra- or multi-nation-state configurations toward their common rules of government. Habermas's notion of constitutional patriotism becomes extremely relevant for the politics of multiethnic states or regionalist quasi-federations because it avoids the apolitical emphasis on performativity that lurks in functionalist, reproductive accounts of society, and the emotional element of a communal ethos grounded in a binding past, an element that is not always available and cannot be created by force. Ethnic patriotism may not be as expendable or as disconnected from a principled political patriotism as many thinkers believe today.
