Nation, People, Population: “National” Political form of Civil Society
( Pp. 99-110)

The purpose of the article is to analyze the “story of the history of the emergence of European nations” as a historical narrative; the variability of “told stories” presented in the form of scientific sociological discourses reveals significant “ambiguities” (E. Balibar) in the representation of the nation, which provides material (objects) for subject thematization in scientific research. The task is to identify and determine the conditions for the possibility of a consistent representation of the nation and the principle of its structure. The second part of the analysis of the narrative history of the emergence and formation of European nations focuses on M. Foucault’s statement that “a nation is one of the forms of civil society”. It is revealed that the political community of the “nation” as an actor of the revolutionary struggle is defined in the “discourse of war”; the population as an object of “police care of the state» in the managerial paradigm is attributed the freedom of rational pursuit of particular interests, that is, the right to «public use of freedom” (I. Kant) within the framework defined in this way; the institution of such freedom is called “civil society”; the nation is presented as a form of unity (together with the state, on whose behalf the narrative of the nation is built), restraining the “centrifugal” of particular interests. It is concluded that the nation is presented as an intermediary between citizens and the political order of a liberal state.

Maltsev K.G., Alaverdyan A.L. Nation, People, Population: «National» Political form of Civil Society. Sociopolitical Sciences. 2023. Vol. 13. No. 1. Pр. 99–110. (In Rus.) DOI: 10.33693/2223-0092-2023-13-1-99-110

Alaverdyan A.L., Maltsev K.G. Socio-historical discourse of the nation: Method and structure. Izvestia of Higher Educational Institutions. The North Caucasus Region. Social Sciences. 2020. No. 4 (208). Pp. 4–14. (In Rus.)
Ankersmith F.R. Narrative logic. Semantic analysis of the language of historians. Moscow: Idea-Press, 2003. 360 p.
Ankersmith F.R. Aesthetic policy. Political Philosophy beyond fact and value. Moscow: Publishing House of the Higher School of Economics, 2014. 432 p.
Arendt H. About the revolution. Moscow: Europe, 2011. 464 p.
Balibar E., Wallerstein I. Race, nation, class. Ambiguous identities. Moscow: Logos Publishing House, 2004, 288 p.
Binkovskaya L.N., Maltsev K.G. Modern culture as cultural policy: M. Heidegger on culture as a “phenomenon of modernity”. Eurasian Legal Journal. 2021. No. 3 (154). Pp. 464–470. (In Rus.)
Brubaker R. Ethnicity without groups. Moscow: Publishing House of the Higher School of Economics, 2012. 408 p.
Hegel G.V.F. Philosophy of Law. Moscow: Mysl, 1990. 524 p.
Grinfeld L. Nationalism. Five paths to modernity. Moscow: PER SE, 2012. 528 p.
Lal D. Praising the Empire: Globalization and order. Moscow: New Publishing House, 2010. 364 p.
Locke D. Two treatises on the board. Moscow; Chelyabinsk: Socium, 2014. 480 p.
Lomako L.L., Maltsev K.G. The discourse of the “anti-terrorist war” and a just, that is, total, war. Politbook. 2020a. No. 3. Pp. 80–97. (In Rus.)
Lomako L.L., Maltsev K.G. The Constructivist paradigm in the study of the nation, nationalism, ethno-national conflict: Some critical remarks. Eurasian Law Journal. 2020b. No. 8 (147). Pp. 430–434. (In Rus.)
Maltsev K.G., Alaverdyan A.L. Moral discourse of the nation and nationalism in the horizon of the liberal paradigm of the political. Humanities and Social Sciences. 2020a. No. 6. Pp. 42–52. (In Rus.)
Maltsev K.G., Alaverdyan A.L. Modern political philosophy and the “myth of the nation” by K. Hubner. Eurasian Legal Journal. 2020b. No. 10 (149). Pp. 472–476. (In Rus.)
Maltsev K.G., Alaverdyan A.L. The sociological representation of the emergence of European nations: The experience of philosophical criticism. Kant. 2021. No. 2 (39). Pp. 209–225. (In Rus.)
Maltsev K.G., Maltseva A.V. Biopolitical production of life and the “new war”: The experience of philosophical interpretation. Intelligence. Innovation. Investment. 2021. No. 4. Pp. 86–94. (In Rus.)
Maltsev K.G., Maltseva A.V., Lomako L.L. Discourses of a new “hybrid” war: Content and criticism. Proceedings of the Southwestern State University. Series: History and Law. 2021. Vol. 11. No. 4. Pp. 123–134. (In Rus.)
Mann M. Sources of Social Power. In 4 vols. Vol. 2. Book 1: The formation of classes and nation-states, 1760–1914. Moscow: Delo, 2018. 503 p.
Mann M. Sources of Social power. In 4 vols. Vol. 2. Book 2: The formation of classes and nation-states, 1760–1914. Moscow: Delo, 2018. 507 p.
Mann M. Sources of Social power. In 4 vols. Vol. 3: Global empires and revolution, 1890–1945. Moscow: Delo, 2018. 682 p.
Smith E. Nationalism and Modernism: A critical review of modern theories of nations and nationalism. Moscow: Praxis, 2004. 464 p.
Foucault M. We need to protect society. A course of lectures delivered at the Collège de France in the 1975–1976 academic year. St. Petersburg: Nauka, 2005. 312 p.
Foucault M. The birth of biopolitics. A course of lectures delivered at the Collège de France in the 1978–1979 academic year. St. Petersburg: Nauka, 2010. 448 p.
Foucault M. Security, territory, population. A course of lectures delivered at the Collège de France in the 1977–1978 academic year. St. Petersburg: Nauka, 2011. 544 p.
Heidegger M. Reflections II–VI (Black notebooks 1931–1938). Moscow: Publishing House of the Gaidar Institute, 2016. 584 p.
Heidegger M. Reflections VII–XI (Black notebooks 1938–1939). Moscow: Publishing House of the Gaidar Institute, 2018. 528 p.
Heidegger M. Reflections XII–XV (Black notebooks 1939–1941). Moscow: Publishing House of the Gaidar Institute, 2020. 344 p.
Hubner K. Nation: From oblivion to rebirth. Moscow: Canon+, 2001. 400 p.
Yak B. Nationalism and moral psychology of the community. Moscow: Publishing House of the Gaidar Institute, 2017. 520 p.
Schmitt C. Volksentscheid und Volksbegehren. Ein Beitrag zur Auslegung der Weimarer Verfassung und zur Lehre von der unmittelbaren Demokratie. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2014. 91 s.

nation, civil society, nation-state, management paradigm, discourse of war, population, people.