E Pluribus Unum: European Nationalism or Shopping for Identities in the European Union

Oleg Piletsky

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E Pluribus Unum: European Nationalism or Shopping for Identities in the European Union

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401200653_004

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This chapter examines the development of nationalism and globalisation throughout twentieth-century European history, from the formation of nation states to the current debates on the European Union and globalisation. Its challenge to the contemporary critique of ideology opens the way for a new understanding of social conflict, particularly the recent outbursts of nationalism, violence and ethnic struggle. I argue for Zizekâs claim that what drives nationalistic and ethnic antagonism is a collectively driven refusal of enjoyment. Every nationality has created its own narrative of how other nations deprive it of the vital part of pleasure, the possession of which would allow it to live fully. And the only way to overcome this ideological obstacle is to foster a new national identity based not on an historic and national heritage but on the principles of liberal democracy and constitutional freedom.

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Violence: âMercurial Gestaltâ

Series:Â At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries, Volume: 47

E-Book ISBN:: 9789401200653

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2008

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