Philosophical Anarchology of Patriotism and(20/30)

 

Philosophical Anarchology of Patriotism and the Anarchopathology of Homelandosis(20/30)

Mahmoud Sadeghi Janbahan

Translated by Maryam Sadeghi 


Philosophical Anarchological Elucidation of Homeland, Borders, and Identity in the Existential Perspective of Anarchic and Free Life


Anatomizing the Homeland through Philosophical Anarchology: A Space for Ethical Experience

Philosophical anarchology, by moving beyond exaggerated patriotic, nationalistic, or ethnic interpretations of homeland, understands it not as a geographical fact but as an ethical possibility. A possibility for living, choosing, and being responsible with others, in a space founded on freedom and dignity. In this perspective, homeland is not a natural given, but a reimaginable and moral concept.

Redefining the homeland within the framework of philosophical anarchology means liberating it from the chains of the language of domination, unwanted borders, and ideological constructs. Homeland is no longer an object of possession or a symbol of loyalty, but a field for experiencing free and responsible living. In this homeland, individuals are free to choose where to stay, how to think, and with whom to live—and such choice is meaningful only when made free from coercion, fear, or imposition.

Philosophical anarchology views the homeland as a space for practicing justice and dignity—not for ownership, exclusion, or domination. Belonging to a homeland is meaningless if it does not enable ethical action and voluntary coexistence. In this paradigm, homeland becomes an ethical concept that must be continuously rethought—not a cage of identity, but a field of freedom and difference.

To redefine homeland in anarchological terms is to rescue it from the monopoly of power-laden language and return it to the language of dignity—a language in which every individual has the right to rethink the self, the other, and the homeland.


Denying Domination and Crossing the Borders of Compulsory Belonging

In the theoretical framework of philosophical anarchology, compulsory belonging to a homeland—be it through soil, ethnicity, language, or political system—manifests as a form of concealed domination. A form that binds human dignity to accidents of birth, geography, or fossilized history. To transcend such belonging is not to negate homeland, but to ethically revolt against the imposition of identity.

From the perspective of philosophical anarchology, the homeland can only be liberating if one retains the right to leave, critique, and redefine it. When homeland becomes a territory where departure is betrayal, critique is ingratitude, and rethinking is identity loss, then it is transformed into a structure of domination—more prison than home.

Denial of domination in this context means liberating the homeland from sacralization and fixation. It means opening the homeland toward human, voluntary, and ethical experience, where one can choose to stay, to leave, to build, or to abandon—without being subjected to humiliation, exclusion, or hatred.

To transcend the borders of compulsory belonging is not to destroy the homeland, but to reconstruct it as a voluntary space for non-dominative coexistence. Such a homeland would no longer be rooted in soil or flags, but in freedom, diversity, and human dignity.


Citation:

Sadeghi Janbahan, Mahmoud. (2025). Philosophical Anarchology of Patriotism and the Anarchopathology of Homelandosis (20/30): From Homelandosis as a Prison to Cosmopolitanism as the Horizon of Anarchic Freedom.

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