عنوان

State, nation and the congruent society fantasy :

شماره

TLets616642

عنوان اصلي

State, nation and the congruent society fantasy :

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Mandelbaum , Moran M.

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

a genealogy

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of Bristol

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2013

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

University of Bristol

امتياز متن

2013

متن يادداشت

Nationalism is primarily a political principle, which holds that the political and thenational unit should be congruent' (Gellner 2006: 128, 1). This thesis argues that thisideal of congruency - a unification of individuals and a congruency of a 'people' withspace and authority - has become a leitmotif in our contemporary modes of thought,often rendered concomitant to liberal democracy, security, peace and modernity.Congruent societies, whether defined as 'nation-states' or otherwise, are assumed tobe the optimal unit in the 'modern international'. In this thesis, I suggest reading thecongruent society as a 'fantasy', a multifaceted discourse that makes our worldintelligible by carving it into imagined congruent socio-political units. The congruentsociety is a fantasy, indeed a fantasmatic project, in that it offers a certain 'fullness tocome', the promise of jouissance, that can never be attained and is thus constantly reenvisionedand re-invoked. It is an impossible yet always-desired attempt to mask thevoid of society, to stabilise the contingency of social life. Furthermore, this thesisoffers a genealogical inquiry into the conditions of emergence of the congruentsociety fantasy from early-modernity to our contemporary regime of congruency.Reading genealogy as a 'history of the present', this thesis problematises and denaturalisesour contemporary regime of congruency by interrogating the myriaddiscursive practices that constitute and legitimate the fantasy of congruency.

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Mandelbaum , Moran M.

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

University of Bristol

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y