«Germans against Berbers»: the construction of a popular subject position in/against the Joseantonian counter-historical discourse
Abstract
«Germanics versus Berbers», an article by José Antonio Primo de Rivera in which the history of Spain is described as the structural struggle of two opposing races (Germanics and Berbers), contrasts with the classical right-wing reading where the enemy, as Carl Schmitt claims, constitutive of society, is external. This article must therefore be understood in terms of what Foucault calls a counter-history, a historical narrative marked by an irreconcilable tension between two races that constitute the same society. From this perspective, it is possible, with the elements proposed by the discourse but against the discourse itself, to elaborate what Mouffe and Laclau call a popular construction of the subject understood in terms of Berberisation.
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