Identitet kao dispozitiv moći: kraj ideologije ili politike multikulturalizma?
IDENTITY AS A POWER APPARATUS: THE END OF IDEOLOGY OR POLITICS OF MULTICULTURALISM?

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the analysis of multiculturalism as an ideology of political integration in modern pluralistic societies of liberal democracy. The author develops the thesis that the self-proclaimed end of the policy of multiculturalism in European integration should not be considered the end of multiculturalism as a failed policy of “cultural differences”, but quite the opposite: the essence of the ideology of liberal multiculturalism in general – the ideology of political integration. Since the existence of parallel societies and politics in Western societies under rule of technocracy elite has been explained by the reasons of cultural distances and the dialogue of cultures, the need arises to review the entire legacy of political theories and models of multiculturalism in a situation when it comes to the destruction of the very concept of society in a globalized neo-liberal project of economics, politics and culture. The author has reviewed the case of two paradigms – the political liberalism of Rawls and Habermas, and the politics of identity as difference of Young and Kymlicka – and argues that the way out of the vicious circle of political universalism without the protection of minorities and cultural particularism without belonging to the “new” political community and society can have no credibility without a radical deconstruction of culture as ideology. The question of identity is no longer a question of preserving cultural values at the time of dissolution of social structures of the global era, but a question turned to the power apparatus as identity.

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