Categories of the Impolitical (Commonalities)

Esposito, Roberto/ Parsley, Connal (TRN)

Fordham University Press（2015/04発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 280 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780823264216
• DDC分類 320.01

Full Description

The notion of the "impolitical" developed in this volume draws its meaning from the exhaustion of modernity's political categories, which have become incapable of giving voice to any genuinely radical perspective. The impolitical is not the opposite of the political but rather its outer limit: the border from which we might glimpse a trajectory away from all forms of political theology and the depoliticizing tendencies of a completed modernity.
The book's reconstruction of the impolitical lineage—which is anything but uniform—begins with the extreme conclusions reached by Carl Schmitt and Romano Guardini in their reflections on the political and then moves through a series of encounters between several great twentieth-century texts: from Hannah Arendt's On Revolution to Hermann Broch's The Death of Virgil, to Elias Canetti's Crowds and Power; from Simone Weil's The Need for Roots to Georges Bataille's Sovereignty to Ernst Junger's An der Zeitmauer.
The trail forged by this analysis offers a defiant counterpoint to the modern political lexicon, but at the same time a contribution to our understanding of its categories.

Contents

Contents Preface to the Second Italian Edition 000 Acknowledgments 000 Translator's Note 000 Introduction: An Impolitical Departure 1 1. At the Limits of the Political 000 2. The Unrepresentable Polis 000 3. Power and Silence 000 4. A Politics of Ascesis 000 5. The Community of Death 000 Notes 000 Index 000