A crucial rhetorical shift produces a new political narrative
Evidence
Hotman takes up the German thesis and says: “The Franks who, at some point, did invade Gaul and establish a new monarchy, are not Trojans, but Germans. They defeated the Romans and drove them out.” This is an almost literal reproduction of Rhenanus’s Germanic thesis. | sav “almost” because ee me there is after all a difference, and it is of fundamental importance: Hotman does not say that the Franks deteated the Gauls; he says that they deteated the Romans. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 134
Categorization
- XREF: Shows how a small substitution of who is conquered changes the entire political narrative, like the reframing of who counts as the indigenous or colonized subject. — connects to: Identity politics must return to the past only through narrative reinvention; The shift from ‘true’ to ‘truest’ marks territorialized, comparative faith — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 69; Friedman’s rise marked a shift from Hayekian sensibility to a public-facing rhetorical mode — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 385 (+4 more)