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The fantasy of congruency: the Abbe Sieyes and the ‘nation-state’ problematique revisited (2015)
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Mandelbaum, M. (2015). The fantasy of congruency: the Abbe Sieyes and the ‘nation-state’ problematique revisited. Philosophy and Social Criticism, https://doi.org/10.1177/0191453715617503

This paper offers an alternative reading of the Abbé Sieyès and the modern ‘nation-state’ problématique. I argue that the subject/object that is constituted in the early days of modernity is the incomplete society: an impossible-possibility ideal of... Read More about The fantasy of congruency: the Abbe Sieyes and the ‘nation-state’ problematique revisited.