@article{Rauchenschwandtner_2000, title={Zur Konstitution politischer Subjekte im 19. Jahrhundert}, volume={11}, url={https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oezg/article/view/5162}, DOI={10.25365/oezg-2000-11-4-4}, abstractNote={<div class="page" title="Page 2"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(36.470000%, 38.430000%, 33.330000%);">»The people« (Volk) and its constitutions actually seem more than questionable: on </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(36.470000%, 38.430000%, 33.330000%);">the one hand nothing </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(36.470000%, 38.430000%, 33.330000%);">is </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(36.470000%, 38.430000%, 33.330000%);">more dubious than the historical conditions and possibili</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(36.470000%, 38.430000%, 33.330000%);">ties of this political subject, which pretends its </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; font-style: italic; color: rgb(36.470000%, 38.430000%, 33.330000%);">being </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(36.470000%, 38.430000%, 33.330000%);">in so many places; on the other </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(36.470000%, 38.430000%, 33.330000%);">hand »the people« </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(36.470000%, 38.430000%, 33.330000%);">is </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(36.470000%, 38.430000%, 33.330000%);">invented, constructed, fictionalized, homogenized, imagined </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(36.470000%, 38.430000%, 33.330000%);">and moreover, a supposed substance of </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(45.880000%, 47.840000%, 42.750000%);">»the </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(36.470000%, 38.430000%, 33.330000%);">people« </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(36.470000%, 38.430000%, 33.330000%);">is </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(36.470000%, 38.430000%, 33.330000%);">implored or rejected by at</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(36.470000%, 38.430000%, 33.330000%);">tributions. Thus it </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(36.470000%, 38.430000%, 33.330000%);">is </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(36.470000%, 38.430000%, 33.330000%);">this object - </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(45.880000%, 47.840000%, 42.750000%);">»the </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(36.470000%, 38.430000%, 33.330000%);">people« and its creation (production) - </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(36.470000%, 38.430000%, 33.330000%);">which requires an exposition. This article deals with the political subject of </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(45.880000%, 47.840000%, 42.750000%);">»the </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(36.470000%, 38.430000%, 33.330000%);">people« in the specific forms and structures of its appearance and </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(45.880000%, 47.840000%, 42.750000%);">analyzes </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(36.470000%, 38.430000%, 33.330000%);">its histo</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(36.470000%, 38.430000%, 33.330000%);">rical and epistemological genealogy in the 19th<br>Conceptions of natural law tried to show that </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(45.880000%, 47.840000%, 42.750000%);">»the </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(36.470000%, 38.430000%, 33.330000%);">people« </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(36.470000%, 38.430000%, 33.330000%);">is </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(36.470000%, 38.430000%, 33.330000%);">still in the state of </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(36.470000%, 38.430000%, 33.330000%);">nature (Sieyes). But they also evoked </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(45.880000%, 47.840000%, 42.750000%);">»the </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(36.470000%, 38.430000%, 33.330000%);">people« as a </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; font-style: italic; color: rgb(36.470000%, 38.430000%, 33.330000%);">population </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(36.470000%, 38.430000%, 33.330000%);">and hence as a technological and administrative object. Following this the transformations of those discourses that aim at a possible unity of </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(45.880000%, 47.840000%, 42.750000%);">»the </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(36.470000%, 38.430000%, 33.330000%);">people« have to be introduced. For the main question </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(36.470000%, 38.430000%, 33.330000%);">is: </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(36.470000%, 38.430000%, 33.330000%);">Which part of </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(45.880000%, 47.840000%, 42.750000%);">»the </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(36.470000%, 38.430000%, 33.330000%);">people« presents itself and which part is represented? Thus the constitution and </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(45.880000%, 47.840000%, 42.750000%);">structure </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(36.470000%, 38.430000%, 33.330000%);">of political subjects will be </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(36.470000%, 38.430000%, 33.330000%);">stressed in relation to creation (production) and representation, by examining the </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(36.470000%, 38.430000%, 33.330000%);">most important discursive strategies in the archive of the 19th century. </span></p> </div> </div> </div>}, number={4}, journal={Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften}, author={Rauchenschwandtner, Hermann}, year={2000}, month={Dez.}, pages={77–106} }