Metafizika nacionalnog identiteta. Izgradnja svijeta u nacionalno-identitetskom diskursu etnopolitike
Metaphysics of national identity. World-building in the national identity discourse of ethnopolitics

Summary/Abstract: The author’s ultimate question is: What is it in the matrix of national identity discourse practices that produces the ‘(national) ethnopolitical body’? To this end, the author proceeds to re-describe the hegemonistic discourse which sits at the root of universal ethnopolitical action, following in the footsteps of Marx’s similar unmasking he called “the mystery of speculative construction” in The Holy Family. The national identity discourse of ethnopolitics will be shown to be a speculative construction serving as a legitimising narrative for a highly specific political arrangement and, as such, an ideological construct. But not only that, it is also ontological because it establishes the existing. Marx’s critical perspective will help us, the author suggests, to unmask how this speculative construction operates on a cognitive theory plane and allow us to later consider its operation and production of specific consequences on the social and political plane.

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