Filozofija i drustvo 2010 Volume 21, Issue 2, Pages: 53-70
https://doi.org/10.2298/FID1002053M
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Revolution with and without the mask
Milanko Vladan
This paper is an attempt to provide a certain “second reading” of those
commonplaces which imply that a particular, personal interest always lies
behind the mask of objectivity, necessity and truth. As a paradigmatic
example of this kind of structure that implies “hidden truths”, here will be
taken that of a revolution, whether it is a fascist, a liberal-democratic or
a communist revolution. By reexamining how this motif of
“truth-behind-the-mask” figures in those regimes, we will try to say
something about each of them, and also about the specific kind of subject
that is produced under them.
Keywords: institution, rule, exception, enjoyment, truth, appearance