Προσωπική ταυτότητα, εθνική ταυτότητα και ιδιότητα του πολίτη

Abstract

The article refers to some aspects and characteristics of identities (Self identity, national identity and citizenship). Identities are based on a narration of continuity, which somehow composes a biography and exorcize historical gaps.The construction of political identities (national identity and citizenship) in modernity is based on a harmonized, hierarchical way of thinking which covers various discrepancies in identity formation. National identity is primarily a political identity sealed by modern state’s silent violence so as to appear as an homogenized cultural identity, offering somehow a sentimental depth in politics and citizenship. This sentimental depth is crystallized in an immaginary, Utopian glance on the Nation which is traced on a number of nationalist thinkers (Herder, Barres Maurass, Giannopulos and Dragumis). Today, ‘reflexive modernization’ discomposes fixed and cohesive orientations and overthrows faith hierarchies, causing thereby an anxiety which undermines the core of any subjective and collective identity. A typical example of this anxiety is the controversy over the enrolling of religion in Greek identity cards. On this controversy, the Greek Orthodox Church adopts a metaphoric discourse and expressive style drawing on from the tradition of cultural nationalism which dominates in Greek public discourse.