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The People, the Homeland, the Great Patriotic War - the Political Seen from the Perspective of Theatre Studies

Goran Pavlić


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Abstract

Pre-theoretical, common sense understanding of basic political concepts, such as »people«, or »homeland«, tends to be objectivistic. More precisely, these and other policital terms are being conceived of as physical objects, with stable and permanent characteristics, whose analysis mainly remain on purely descriptive level. Argentinian political philosopher Ernesto Laclau, in his books Politics and
Ideology in Marxist Theory and On Populist Reason reverses such an approach and perceives political subjectivity as a discursive construct, i.e. an a posteirori of a prior theoretical articulation. Along those lines, strenghtened with Spehnjak’s and Najbar Agičić’s historiographic insights on the nature of cultural politics in the early socialist period of Republic of Croatia, I’ll propose a political reading of Kazališni list (Theatre Newspaper) – an official publication of Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, published from 1945-48, and demonstrate the emancipatory aspects of its populist foundation.

Keywords

Laclau; populism; Kazališni list; people; politics

Hrčak ID:

220358

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/220358

Publication date:

30.4.2019.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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