POL 2104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Language Game, Michael Ignatieff, Thomas Hobbes
20 Aug 2016
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Warrior"s honour: the narcissism of minor difference by michael ignatieff (1977) Self-in ated ideologies see the con ict as a fault in the country where con ict is happening. This takes for granted the fact that neighbouring countries barely had the idea of enemies. The seeds of mutual paranoia have been sown. It is a nationalist myth that serbs and croats are radically distinct. A serb is someone who is not a croat, and vice versa. It requires the wiling suspension of disbelief. After tito"s death, the communist elite (milosevic) left in his place realized a new language of popular appeal needed to be invested to mobilize the public. On the 500th anniversary of the defeat at kosovo, milosevic claimed that it remained the heartland of serbian life (despite the fact that few serbs actually lived there anymore) Nationalist demagoguery was a language game and a rhetorical strategy for surviving elections.
