Reflections, Misrecognitions, Messianisms and Identifications: Towards an Epistemology of Irish Nationalism
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2595-8127.v3i1p101-116Abstract
This essay attempts to offer a critique of the mode of knowledge through which nationalism exists, and by which it operates. Placing nationalism within Lacan's concept of the imaginary, it traces the dyadic structure of a people and a place through various examples of Irish nationalist discourse. It also analyses the epistemological structure of nationalism in terms of the creation of a specular image of the ethnic which acts as a point of origin, and a telos, of that ethnic.
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O’Brien, E. (2001). Reflections, Misrecognitions, Messianisms and Identifications: Towards an Epistemology of Irish Nationalism. ABEI Journal, 3(1), 101-116. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2595-8127.v3i1p101-116