Beschreibung:
"Do we need to be a "people," populus, in order to embrace democracy and live together in peace? What exactly do we mean by nationality or nationhood? In this book, moral philosopher Davide Tarizzo takes up the problem of modern democratic "peoples," proposing that Jacques Lacan's theory of subjectivity 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 "peoples" or "nations.""--
Introduction: The Cartesian Connection1. The Clinical Approach to Political History2. Emancipative Grammars: Laclau, Heller, and the People We Are3. Human Properties; Villey, Macpherson, and Our Right to Be4. Political Subjects: Lacan and Ordinary Ontologies5. The Freudian Paradigm of Critical Theory6. The Two Paths to Modern Democracy7. From Democracy to Fascism8. Old and New FascismsConclusion: The Politics of Infinite Sets