The Nation/State Fantasy - A Psychoanalytical Genealogy of Nationalism

This book explores the origins of nationalism and the ideal of nation/state congruency since early-modern European thought, their transformation over time and endurance in contemporary political thought and IR theory. The author deploys a Lacanian-psychoanalytical reading of nationalism and the nation/state that goes beyond methodological nationalism and state-centrism critiques. He offers a genealogical inquiry into the emergence of the nation/state congruency ideal, thus exposing and problematising the practices that render nationalism and the ideal of the nation/state necessary. Offering a new way to read the ontology and epistemology of the nation/state, this work will be of interest to students and scholars of nations and nationalism, political thought, critical international relations and critical security studies. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Problematising the Present.- 2. The Nation/State Fantasy: From Gellner to Lacan.- 3. The State as One: The 'Union of Men', the 'People' and the 'State' in Early Modernity.- 4. The Fragmentation of the State as Modality of Unity and the Rise of the Fantasy of Nation/State Congruency.- 5. Fantasies of Nationalism: Between Nation/State Dialectic and Liberal Thought.- 6. The Nation/State Fantasy and the Production of the 'International' in IR Theory.- 7. Back to the Present: The Contemporaneous Re-Homogenisation of the 'International'.- 8. Conclusions: Engaging with the Ethico-Political.  

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Moran M. Mandelbaum is Lecturer in International Relations in SPIRE (School of Politics, Philosophy, International Relations and Environment), Keele University, UK.    

Zusammenfassung

This book explores the origins of nationalism and the ideal of nation/state congruency since early-modern European thought, their transformation over time and endurance in contemporary political thought and IR theory. The author deploys a Lacanian-psychoanalytical reading of nationalism and the nation/state that goes beyond methodological nationalism and state-centrism critiques. He offers a genealogical inquiry into the emergence of the nation/state congruency ideal, thus exposing and problematising the practices that render nationalism and the ideal of the nation/state necessary. Offering a new way to read the ontology and epistemology of the nation/state, this work will be of interest to students and scholars of nations and nationalism, political thought, critical international relations and critical security studies. 

Bericht

 

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Moran M Mandelbaum, Moran M. Mandelbaum
• Verlag: Springer, Berlin
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.01.2019
• EAN: 9783030229177
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3022917-7
• Seiten: 236
• Abmessung: 150 mm x 19 mm x 215 mm
• Gewicht: 452 g
• Illustration: X, 236 p.
• Serie: Palgrave Studies in International Relations
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Theorien und Ideengeschichte; Psychologie, Internationale Beziehungen, B, Soziale und politische Philosophie, Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften, Psychology, Political Philosophy, International Relations, Political Theory, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, auseinandersetzen, Political History, Behavioral Sciences and Psychology, Political Science and International Studies, Psychology, general, Comparative Politics, International Relations Theory, critiquing nationalism, nation state critique, political genealogy, nationalism history, analytical approach to nationalism