Political identity and the concept of the political

Smorgunov L.V.,

Dr. Sci. (Philos.), Professor, Head of the Political Governance Department, the Faculty of Political Science at the St. Petersburg State University, leonid@LS2502.spb.edu

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Rubric: Reflecting on matters in print

For citation:

Smorgunov L.V. Political identity and the concept of the political. – Polis. Political Studies. 2012. No. 6. P. 178. (In Russ.)

Abstract

The article represents comment by L.V. Smorgunov, a well-known Russian political scientist (St. Petersburg), to an academic scientific publication in two volumes: Political Identity and Identity Politics, comprising a dictionary of terms and concepts pertaining to the theme of political identity, as well as a collective monographic research of the chosen phenomenon in the context of modern socio-political transformations. The author of the article deliberates on political nature of the identity phenomenon and on problems of its conceptualization in political science.

Keywords

identity; political identity; culture; political community; postmodernism; constructionism.