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Do we need to be a "people," populus, in order to embrace democracy and live together in peace? If so, what is a populus? Is it by definition a nation? What exactly do we mean by nationality? In this book, Davide Tarizzo takes up the problem of modern democratic, liberal peoples-how to define them, how to explain their invariance over time, and how to differentiate one people from another. Specifically, Tarizzo proposes that Jacques Lacan's theory of the subject 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 nations whose sense of nationhood does not rest on any self-evident identity or pre-existent cultural or ethnic homogeneity between individuals. Developing an argument about the birth and rise of modern peoples that draws on the American Declaration of Independence of 1776 and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen of 1789 as examples, Tarizzo introduces the concept of "political grammar"-a phrase that denotes the conditions of political subjectification that enable the enunciation of an emergent "we." Democracy, Tarizzo argues, flourishes when the opening between subjectivity and identity is maintained. And in fact, as he compellingly demonstrates, depending on the political grammar at work, democracy can be productively perceived as a process of never-ending recovery from a lack of clear national identity.

Political science --- Fascism --- Democracy --- Subjectivity. --- Philosophy. --- European Union. --- Lacanian psychoanalysis. --- democracy. --- fascism. --- first-person perspective. --- nationalism. --- neoliberalism. --- separatism. --- subjectivity. --- Subjectivism --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Relativity --- Neo-fascism --- Authoritarianism --- Collectivism --- Corporate state --- National socialism --- Synarchism --- Totalitarianism --- Political philosophy

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"A critique of Darwinian philosophy and scientism and an updating of the theory of biopolitics beyond Foucault in accordance with today's post-COVID times"--

Life. --- Biopolitics. --- Bioethics. --- PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy --- PHILOSOPHY / Political --- SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects

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Il Forum europeo tenutosi a Milano sul tema “Amore e odio per l’Europa” è stato un evento maggiore che ha riunito numerosi psicoanalisti provenienti dalle Scuole europee e mondiali del Campo freudiano, mettendoli a confronto con specialisti di diverse discipline, economisti, politologi, filosofi, storici, giuristi. La posta in gioco di questo straordinario dibattito era una riflessione, ormai urgente, sullo spazio europeo. Con questo si intende ovviamente non solo lo spazio geografico – tuttavia importante da definire concretamente nella prospettiva della globalizzazione – ma soprattutto lo spazio politico, di pensiero, di scambi che non possono limitarsi al mercato, se non vogliamo che l’Europa cada nell’indifferenza dei popoli che la abitano. In un’epoca in cui le tensioni ideali non sono più un motore vivo della storia, bisogna puntare a far nascere il desiderio per altre vie. Il capitalismo ha scelto il diluvio d’oggetti, quel che siamo soliti chiamare consumismo e che mostra la corda nei vicoli ciechi in cui ci ha condotti il neoliberismo. Con la psicoanalisi possiamo trovare nuove strade, possiamo aprire a un’erotizzazione del pensiero, un amore che resta attualmente soffocato dietro le forme di odio cui spesso abbiamo assistito negli ultimi tempi. L’insegnamento freudiano però non ci lascia ignari del fatto che né l’odio né l’amore sono mai puri, ed è con questo intreccio complesso che, in molti modi, i testi del libro cercano di confrontarsi.

Political Science --- psicoanalisi --- Europa --- politica --- neoliberismo --- psychanalyse --- Europe --- politique --- néolibéralisme --- Politics and government