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A Critical Theory of Ethno-Nationalist Ideology in the Developed West
ISBN-13: 9783639129083 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 292 str.
This book attempts to address the recent development of ethno nationalism in Western Europe and North America. It engages with Kleinian psychoanalytical concepts, balancing these with a broader socio-economic emphasis, to argue that a certain type of nationalism is becoming more prevalent. The book seeks to suggest, through an interpretation of political culture, that contemporary ethno nationalism is linked to the decline of a sense of the self. Contemporary service based economies tend to favour a lack of personal reality or connectedness to social traditions. Individuals gain emotional solace for this lack of selfhood in an insecure phantasy of total omnipotence and self creation. They deposit the all powerful part of themselves into an invincible racial body, and hence a more radical, atomised nationalism may become more rather than less prominent in the contemporary world.
This book attempts to address the recent developmentof ethno nationalism in Western Europe and NorthAmerica. It engages with Kleinian psychoanalyticalconcepts, balancing these with a broadersocio-economic emphasis, to argue that a certain typeof nationalism is becoming more prevalent. The bookseeks to suggest, through an interpretation ofpolitical culture, that contemporary ethnonationalism is linked to the decline of a sense ofthe self. Contemporary service based economies tendto favour a lack of personal reality or connectednessto social traditions. Individuals gain emotionalsolace for this lack of selfhood in an insecurephantasy of total omnipotenceand self creation. They deposit the all powerfulpart of themselves into an invincible racial body,and hence a more radical, atomised nationalism maybecome more rather than less prominent in thecontemporary world.
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