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Political Grammars

- The Unconscious Foundations of Modern Democracy

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In this book, Davide Tarizzo examines the problem of modern, democratic, liberal peoples-how to define them, how to explain their invariance over time, and how to differentiate one people from another. Specifically, Tarizzo proposes that Jacques Lacan's theory of the subject enables us to clearly distinguish between the notion of personal identity and the notion of subjectivity, and that this distinction is critical to understanding the nature of nations whose sense of nationhood does not rest on any self-evident identity or preexistent cultural or ethnic homogeneity among individuals. Developing an argument about the birth and rise of modern peoples that draws on the American Declaration of Independence of 1776 and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen of 1789 as examples, Tarizzo introduces the concept of "political grammar"-a phrase denoting the conditions of political subjectification that enable the enunciation of an emergent "we." Democracy, Tarizzo argues, flourishes when the opening between subjectivity and identity is maintained. And in fact, as he compellingly demonstrates, depending on the political grammar at work, democracy can be productively perceived as a process of never-ending recovery from a lack of clear national identity.

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  • Språk:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781503614680
  • Bindende:
  • Hardback
  • Sider:
  • 296
  • Utgitt:
  • 6. april 2021
  • Dimensjoner:
  • 140x216x0 mm.
  • BLACK NOVEMBER
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In this book, Davide Tarizzo examines the problem of modern, democratic, liberal peoples-how to define them, how to explain their invariance over time, and how to differentiate one people from another. Specifically, Tarizzo proposes that Jacques Lacan's theory of the subject enables us to clearly distinguish between the notion of personal identity and the notion of subjectivity, and that this distinction is critical to understanding the nature of nations whose sense of nationhood does not rest on any self-evident identity or preexistent cultural or ethnic homogeneity among individuals.
Developing an argument about the birth and rise of modern peoples that draws on the American Declaration of Independence of 1776 and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen of 1789 as examples, Tarizzo introduces the concept of "political grammar"-a phrase denoting the conditions of political subjectification that enable the enunciation of an emergent "we." Democracy, Tarizzo argues, flourishes when the opening between subjectivity and identity is maintained. And in fact, as he compellingly demonstrates, depending on the political grammar at work, democracy can be productively perceived as a process of never-ending recovery from a lack of clear national identity.

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