Political struggle generates historically emergent self-recognition of subjects

Evidence

In that very struggle is a change of consciousness, a change of self-recognition, a new process of identification, the emergence into visibility of a new subject. A subject that was always there, but emerging, historically. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 234

Categorization

• XREF: Anticipates the ‘imagined community’ and constructed-subject reading of the nation; identity as historical emergence connects to Homi Bhabha’s nation-as-narration. — connects to: Radical events resist reduction to subjective self-recognition — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 122; Postwar youth subcultures may have harbored democratic potential invisible to political surveys — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2353; Reading liberatory theory can transform a reader’s political identity through struggle (+5 more)
• DEFINE: Defines political identity as historically emergent — the subject ‘always there but emerging’.