Politikai diskurzuselmélet és identitás
Political Discourse Theory and Identity

Summary/Abstract: The study deals with the questions of political identity formation in discourse theoretical framework. It aims at revealing the basic philosophical and theore tical assumptions about the construction of political identities, but also tries to offer a normative base for critical analysis, heading towards a democratic political theory. For this purpose it uses concepts and theories deriving from poststructuralist and hermeneutical discourse theories, e. g. Hungarian political discourse analysis (CEPODS, Center for Political Discourse Studies). The critical and normative interpretation of political identities is based on the assumption that identities are formed by constructions of discursive frontiers, but from a democratic perspective we should differentiate between them taking into account the intensity of frontier building. The hermeneutical approach points to the importance of the existence of “the other”, and to the complexity of discursive positions and their constructions by political actors.

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