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Tiêu đề
Liberal articulations of the 'Enlightenment' in the Greek public sphere
Tác giả
Mylonas Y.
Năm xuất bản
2017
Source title
Journal of Language and Politics
Số trích dẫn
2
DOI
10.1075/jlp.15022.myl
Liên kết
Tóm tắt
This study presents a scrutiny of 'liberal' discursive constructions of the 'Enlightenment' in the Greek public sphere. The study is based on the analysis of articles published in two news/lifestyle websites, 'AthensVoice' and 'Protagon', during the (ongoing), so-called, 'Greek crisis'. Discourse theory, informed by critical discourse analysis, is deployed to analyze these discursive constructions. The analysis shows that Greece's economic/social/political problems are constructed as symptoms that underline Greece's fundamental deficit, which is the country's alleged 'lack of 'Enlightenment', as perceived by 'liberal' voices in Greece and elsewhere. The article concludes that such discourses are part of a biopolitical, disciplinary framework producing the object to be reformed by austerity: an 'un-Enlightened' 'Greek character', 'guilty' for 'self-inflicting' Greece's crisis. This 'reform of character' envisioned by liberals in Greece and elsewhere, is supposed to emerge through the institutional advance of neoliberal restructuring processes that include austerity reforms, privatizations, and loss of labor and civic rights, conditions to foster the neoliberal, entrepreneurial, mobile and austere subject, to potentially meet the socio-political requirements of late capitalist growth. © John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Từ khóa
Biopolitics; Crisis; Enlightenment; Europe; Greece; Liberals; Modernity
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John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Open Access
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