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Political Grammars - The Unconscious Foundations of Modern Democracy (Paperback)
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Political Grammars - The Unconscious Foundations of Modern Democracy (Paperback)
Series: Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities
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Do we need to be a "people," populus, in order to embrace democracy
and live together in peace? If so, what is a populus? Is it by
definition a nation? What exactly do we mean by nationality? In
this book, Davide Tarizzo takes up 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 very distinction is critical to understanding the nature
of nations whose sense of nationhood does not rest on any
self-evident identity or pre-existent cultural or ethnic
homogeneity between 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 that denotes
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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