Political Grammars
Political Grammars Do we need to be a "people," populus, in order to embrace democracy and live together in peace? Is it by definition a nation? If so, what is a populus? Specifically, Tarizzo…
Specifikacia Political Grammars
Political Grammars
Do we need to be a "people," populus, in order to embrace democracy and live together in peace? Is it by definition a nation? If so, what is a populus?
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. 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. Developing an argument about the birth and rise of modern peoples that draws on