Subject supposed to believe and nation as a zero institution

Philosophy

Authors

  • Rastko J. Mochnik Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana; 2, Askerceva str., Ljubljana, 1000, Slovenia

Keywords:

Neo-Marxism, ideology, ideological interpellation, subject, nation, compulsion

Abstract

In the following text, we try to systemise the results of different theoretical elaborations which become the part of vividly changing historical conjunctures of the past decades, were led, by the intertwining logics of theoretical work and historical practices, to articulate themselves around Althusser’s concept of ideological interpellation. Whatever theoretical effects our efforts may have hopefully produced, they have been attempted from within a rather heterogeneous set of practices, and were trying to think, that is, to «organise» in the intellectual and in the political sense, our historical commitments and struggles of the past decades upon a theoreticalbackground where the powerful theoretical apparatus legated by Althusser’s re-interpretation of historical materialism had a prominent place. While, during the brilliant marches of the eighties, when, at each step, the historical process seemed to overtake the sparkling phrase, we might have been lulled into self-blinding complacence, we have now been cruelly crushed back onto the earth, wondering why the eighteenth Brumaire so obstinatelly follows different Springs.

Author Biography

Rastko J. Mochnik, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana; 2, Askerceva str., Ljubljana, 1000, Slovenia

Professor, Department of Sociology

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Published

2014-06-30