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基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2007. A consideration of a politics 'beyond' or 'on the edge' of liberalism, featuring theorists including Kant, Benjamin, Derrida, Freud, Schmitt, Rancière, Gramsci, Canovan, Oakeshott, Foucault, Vattimo, Laclau and Zizek.
Full Description
Politics on the edges of liberalism refers to a grey zone where phenomena such as difference, populism, revolution and agitation turn the distinction between the inside and the outside of liberalism into a matter of dispute.Each chapter takes on one of these ideas, discussing the intellectual background animating the politics of the culture wars and its celebration of particularism over the universalism of classical liberal thought. Populism becomes a spectral recurrence rather than an outside of democracy. Agitation reappears in emancipatory politics, and the idea of revolution is thought through outside the Jacobin view of insurrection, overthrow and total re-foundation.This is truly interdisciplinary inquiry at the cutting edge of contemporary debates in politics, critical theory, philosophy and sociology. The author draws from an impressive range of thinkers such as Kant, Benjamin, Derrida, Freud, Schmitt, Rancière, Gramsci, Canovan, Oakeshott, Foucault, Vattimo, Laclau and
Contents
Introduction: the Edges as an Internal Periphary; 1. The Underside of Difference and the Limits of Particularism; 2. Populism as a Spectre of Democracy; 3. Populism as an Internal Periphery of Democratic Politics; 4. Stirred and Shaken. From 'the Art of the Possible' to Emancipatory Politics; 5. Talkin' 'bout a Revolution: the End of Mourning; Bibliography; Index
