No Name City. Eclipse of the Conflict and Dispositifs of Impotence
Through the analysis of a novel by José Saramago, Essay on lucidity, questioned in the light of the latest perspectives in philosophy and contemporary political theory, this paper aims to pinpoint five dispositifs (Terror, Trauma, Victimization, Symbolic Misery and State of Exception) which shape th...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Università degli Studi di Cagliari
2015-11-01
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| Series: | Between |
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| Online Access: | http://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/2029 |
| Summary: | Through the analysis of a novel by José Saramago, Essay on lucidity, questioned in the light of the latest perspectives in philosophy and contemporary political theory, this paper aims to pinpoint five dispositifs (Terror, Trauma, Victimization, Symbolic Misery and State of Exception) which shape the widespread sense of political helplessness that pervades today’s society. Such a sense of impotence is here attributed to the eclipse of the concept of conflict through which modernity has thought its own subjectivity as a continuous re-discussion of its hegemonic discourses. |
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| ISSN: | 2039-6597 |