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Political Grammars: The Unconscious Foundations of Modern Democracy

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Political Grammars: The Unconscious Foundations of Modern Democracy - Tarizzo, Davide
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"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.""--

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Political Grammars: The Unconscious Foundations of Modern Democracy 2021, Stanford University Press

ISBN-13: 9781503615311

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Political Grammars: The Unconscious Foundations of Modern Democracy 2021, Stanford University Press

ISBN-13: 9781503614680

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