The Jewish question revisited
Marx, Derrida and ethnic nationalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11340451 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gordon Hull (0000-0001-5406-6310, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 47-77 |
| Publication date | 1997-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy & Social Criticism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0191-4537 • E-ISSN: 1461-734X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/019145379702300203 |
| OpenAlex | W1979356742 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
The question of nationalism as spoken about in contem porary circles is structurally the same as Marx's 'Jewish Question'. Through a reading of Marx's early writings, particularly the 'Jewish Question' essay, guided by Derrida's Specters of Marx and Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities, it is possible to begin to rethink the nationalist question. In this light, nationalism emerges as the byproduct of the reduction of heterogeneous 'people' into a homo geneous 'state'; such 'excessive' voices occupy an ontological space outside of the categories within which the state operates, and thus return, in Derrida's terms, to 'haunt' it. When the nationalist ques tion is viewed in this way, contemporary solutions that depend on reproducing this reduction are called into question
Epistemology · Judaism · Linguistics · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Sociology · State (computer science · Theology · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy · Political Conflict and Governance · Religious studies · Turkey's Politics and Society
Theses on the Philosophy of History
On Derrida's Specters of Marx
On the Threshold
Hypotheses on Nationalism and War
Is the Environment a National Security Issue
The New Pessimism
Nations without States
Imagined communities
In Defense of Liberal Nationalism
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |