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PART II Probing the Orthodox Dichotomy

In Search of a Post-National Identity: Who are My People?

Pages 197-217 | Published online: 01 Jul 2013

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  • Gellner , E. 1983 . Nations and Nationalism Oxford : B. Blackwell . 1: “Nationalism is primarily a political principle, which holds that the political and the national unit should be congruent.” This formulation is adopted by many well-known authors, for example by E.J. Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism since 1780 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1990), 9.
  • 1990 . Du droit à la philosophie 283 – 309 . Paris : Galilée . An exception to this is the series of lectures Derrida gave in Toronto. J. Derrida, ‘La philosophie dans sa langue nationale,’
  • It is the famous definition of Abbé Sieyès from the time of the French Revolution: “La nation, c'est un corps d'associés vivant sous une loi commune et représentés par la même législature.”
  • Ball , T. , Farr , J. and Hanson , R. L. , eds. 1989 . Political Innovation and Conceptual Change 177 – 93 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . This meaning was also present in ‘patriote’ or ‘patriot’ which means ‘warrior for the nation’ in the universal sense of warrior against tyranny, for freedoms and constitutional rights. This was also the acceptable meaning, not only during the English and American revolutions, but even in England at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The term was then mostly used by and for the Chartists, who in their fight for radical social and economic reformation were at an earlier stage even internationally oriented. Only later in the century would the term obtain nationalistic connotations. Cf. M.G. Dietz, ‘Patriotism,’ in
  • 1789 . Essai sur la régénération physique, morale et politique des Juifs 66 – 76 . At the same moment that Abbé Sieyès in wrote his universal outpouring on human rights, Abbé Grégoire wrote his famous texts: Rapport sur la nécessité et les moyens d'anéantir les patois et d'universaliser l'usage de la langue française. For an analysis see M. De Certeau, Une politique de la langue. La Révolution française et les patois (Paris: Gallimard 1975); P. Caussat, De l'identité culturelle. Mythe ou réalité (Paris: Desclée de Brouwer 1989)
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  • The double movement is possible also at the level of supra-national structures. In so called Euro-nationalism, Europe is presented as a super-nation with its own national (and also socio-cultural) identity. This can be interpreted in two ways. Either political union is the expression of the unity of the nation (the Christian inheritance, for example), or a politically unified Europe must make of itself a cultural unity (via, for example, educational policy).
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  • Le mythe nazi 61 In Nazism, the political cannot be viewed as an articulation of pre-political or cultural identities, because this would presuppose a universal moment. Nazism is the negation of all universality. For that reason it is not even about language or cultural identity. It is about the completely singular and the completely incommunicable. It simply marks its own soil with its own blood.
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  • It is conspicuous how Belgium, after becoming a federal state a number of years ago, still finds it difficult to discuss important political problems (for example, the efficient working of social security or of justice). Just as a discussion is begun, another party proposes that the competence in the matter be divided up and referred to the regional governments. This type of splitting up has now acquired the status of ‘political solution.’
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  • Sociologists such as Gabriel A. Almond use the term ‘political culture.’ It is useful here in expressing the fact that groups embody and institutionalize very specific forms of political conduct and notions. Thus a form of national integration, in the political sense, is possible which does not coincide with the ethnic or cultural unity.
  • Die nachholende Revolution 149 – 56 . Habermas has emphasized this himself in his interview with Ferry.
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