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The Unpolitical

Author : Massimo Cacciari
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823230031
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book The Unpolitical written by Massimo Cacciari and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Massimo Cacciari is one of the leading public intellectuals in today's Italy. This collection of essays on political topics provides the best introduction in English to his thought to date.This carefully curated collection includes chapters on Hofmannsthal, Luk\ cs, Benjamin, Nietzsche, Weber, Derrida, Schmitt, Canetti, and Aeschylus. Written between 1978 and 2006, these essays engagingly address the most hidden tradition in European political thought: the unpolitical. Far from being a refusal of politics, The Unpolitical represents a merciless critique of political reason and a way out of the now impracticable consolations of utopia and harmonious community.A lucid and engaging Introduction by Alessandro Carrera sets these essays in the context of Cacciari's work generally and in the broadest context of its historical and geographical backdrop.

The Politics of the Unpolitical

Author : Herbert Read
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317487044
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of the Unpolitical written by Herbert Read and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of fourteen essays, first published in 1943, Herbert Read extends and amplifies the points of view expressed in his successful pamphlet To Hell with Culture, which has been reprinted here. The ‘politics of the unpolitical’ are the politics of those who strive for human values and not for national or sectional interests. Herbert Read defines these values and demands their recognition as a solvent of social and cultural crises’, and looks forward to the future with constructive vision. This book will be of interest to students of politics, history, and philosophy.

The Politics of the Unpolitical

Author : Gordon A. Craig
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195357394
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (573 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of the Unpolitical written by Gordon A. Craig and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-05-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a book written during the First World War, Thomas Mann wrote that political activity was alien to the German spirit and that "in fact the political element was absent from the German concept of education." The Politics of the Unpolitical demonstrates the essential unreliability of this generalization by focusing on the political activity of ten of Germany's most widely respected writers in the period from the French Revolution to the founding of the Bismarck Reich in 1871. Gordon A. Craig's book shows how Goethe, Schiller, Heinrich von Kleist, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Holderlin, and Heine were fascinated by the political issues of their day and reacted either by entering public service or threw themselves into efforts to change society for the better. In his study of ten of Germany's most important intellectuals Craig, focuses on their political views and activities and argues that they were not, in fact, representatives of the genre of the "unpolitical German."

The Unpolitical

Author : Massimo Cacciari
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780823230051
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Unpolitical written by Massimo Cacciari and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Massimo Cacciari is one of the leading public intellectuals in today's Italy, both as an outstanding philosopher and political thinker and as now three times (and currently) the mayor of Venice. This collection of essays on political topics provides the best introduction in English to his thought to date. The political focus does not, however, prevent these essays from being an introduction to the full range of Cacciari's thought. The present collection includes chapters on Hofmannstahl, Lukács, Benjamin, Nietzsche, Weber, Derrida, Schmitt, Canetti, and Aeschylus. Written between 1978 and 2006, these essays engagingly address the most hidden tradition in European political thought: the Unpolitical. Far from being a refusal of politics, the Unpolitical represents a merciless critique of political reason and a way out of the now impracticable consolations of utopia and harmonious community. Drawing freely from philosophy and literature, The Unpolitical represents a powerful contribution to contemporary political theory. A lucid and engaging Introduction by Alessandro Carrera sets these essays in the context of Cacciari's work generally and in the broadest context of its historical and geographical backdrop.

The Politics of the Unpolitical. (Essays.).

Author : Herbert Read
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of the Unpolitical. (Essays.). written by Herbert Read and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Politics of the Unpolitical

Author : Herbert Read
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of the Unpolitical written by Herbert Read and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Between Two Worlds

Author : Richard Hoggart
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100067486X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Between Two Worlds written by Richard Hoggart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his life, Richard Hoggart has been involved with four main areas: broadcasting, arts policy, education, and social work, all of which he finds have characteristics in common. This collection of essays represents less than a quarter of his essays published over the last two decades. The subjects, to which he turned again and again and which recur in public debate, are still current and contemporary. His views on culture and society, on literature and censorship, and on higher education are both unique and timely.The volume is divided into six parts. Part 1, "Society and Culture: Home and Away," discusses the question, "Are museums political?"; the use of the battered word culture in relation to UNESCO; and the end of the public service idea. Part 2, "A Very English Voice," looks at the rural English culture and country of D. H. Lawrence, and examines the controversy and censorship involved with three of Lawrence's works: The Rainbow, Women in Love, and Lady Chatterley's Lover. Part 3, "Politics and Literature," reveals the author's penchant for timely debates on such subjects as "The State versus Literature" and "Freedom to Publish: Even Hateful Stuff"; and his thoughts on reviewers and reviewing. Part 4, "Levels of Education," touches upon the subjects of politics in universities; the use of public funds for various purposes presumed to be socially valuable; academics in the marketplace; and the need for government to foster critical and cultivated literacy. Part 5, "Figures from a Distant Past," contains reminiscences on and portraits of Hoggart's close relationships and family. Part 6, "Summing Up and Signing Off," is an interview with Nicolas Tredell in which Hoggart discusses his life's work and concerns.Written in Hoggart's characteristically graceful but direct style, these essays touch on issues of contemporary importance in his unique manner. This volume will be of interest to scholars and general readers interested in culture studies, communications, and education.

Democracy Disfigured

Author : Nadia Urbinati
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674726383
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Democracy Disfigured written by Nadia Urbinati and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Democracy Disfigured, Nadia Urbinati diagnoses the ills that beset the body politic in an age of hyper-partisanship and media monopolies and offers a spirited defense of the messy compromises and contentious outcomes that define democracy. Urbinati identifies three types of democratic disfiguration: the unpolitical, the populist, and the plebiscitarian. Each undermines a crucial division that a well-functioning democracy must preserve: the wall separating the free forum of public opinion from governmental institutions that enact the will of the people. Unpolitical democracy delegitimizes political opinion in favor of expertise. Populist democracy radically polarizes the public forum in which opinion is debated. And plebiscitary democracy overvalues the aesthetic and nonrational aspects of opinion. For Urbinati, democracy entails a permanent struggle to make visible the issues that citizens deem central to their lives. Opinion is thus a form of action as important as the mechanisms that organize votes and mobilize decisions. Urbinati focuses less on the overt enemies of democracy than on those who pose as its friends: technocrats wedded to procedure, demagogues who make glib appeals to "the people," and media operatives who, given their preference, would turn governance into a spectator sport and citizens into fans of opposing teams.

Wilhelm Furtwängler

Author : Roger Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783272839
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Wilhelm Furtwängler written by Roger Allen and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pathbreaking, new intellectual biography of the composer and conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler.

Roberto Esposito

Author : Peter Langford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136005684
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Roberto Esposito written by Peter Langford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roberto Esposito: Law, Community and the Political provides a critical legal introduction to this increasingly influential Italian theorist’s work, by focusing on Esposito’s reconceptualisation of the relationship between law, community and the political. The analysis concentrates primarily on Esposito’s Catégories de l’Impolitique, Communitas, Immunitas and Bíos, which, it is argued, are animated by an abiding concern with the position of critique in relation to the tradition of modern and contemporary legal and political philosophy. Esposito’s fundamental rethinking of these notions breaks with the existing framework of political and legal philosophy, through the critique of its underlying presuppositions. And, in the process, Esposito rethinks the very form of critique. As the first monograph-length study of Esposito in English, Roberto Esposito: Law, Community and the Political will be of considerable interest to those working in the areas of contemporary legal and political thought and philosophy.

Infrapolitics

Author : Alberto Moreiras
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 082329837X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Infrapolitics written by Alberto Moreiras and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The personal is not political, even if politics marks it and, in many cases, determines it. Infrapolitics seeks to understand conditions of existence that are not reducible to political life and that exceed any definition of world bound to political determinations. It seeks to mobilize an exteriority without which politics could only be business or administration, that is, oppression. It demands a change in seeing and an everyday practice that subtracts from political totalization in the name of a new production of desire, of a new emancipation, and of a conception of experience that can breach the general captivation of life. In this book, Alberto Moreiras describes a form of thought aiming to provide content for a form of life and to offer a new theoretical practice for concrete existence. The book provides a genealogy of the notion of infrapolitics and places it within contemporary philosophical reflection, examining its deployment in the wake of postphenomenology and deconstruction, Lacanian analysis, the principle of anarchy, and an egalitarian symbolization of social life. In doing so, Moreiras elaborates Infrapolitics as both a general critique of the political apparatus and as an imperative horizon for existential self-understanding.

The Actuality of Communism

Author : Bruno Bosteels
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781687692
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book The Actuality of Communism written by Bruno Bosteels and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2014-09-24 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the rising stars of contemporary critical theory, Bruno Bosteels discusses the new currents of thought generated by figures such as Alain Badiou, Jacques Rancière and Slavoj Žižek, who are spearheading the revival of interest in communism. Bosteels examines this resurgence of communist thought through the prism of “speculative leftism” – an incapacity to move beyond lofty abstractions and thoroughly rethink the categories of masses, classes and state. Debating those questions with writers including Roberto Esposito and Alberto Moreiras, Bosteels also provides a vital account of the work of the Bolivian Vice President and thinker Álvaro García Linera.

Politics and Fate

Author : Andrew Gamble
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 074566637X
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Politics and Fate written by Andrew Gamble and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-07-10 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics was once regarded as an activity which could give human societies control over their fate. However, there is now a deep pessimism about the ability of human beings to control anything very much, least of all through politics. This new fatalism about the human condition claims that we are living in the iron cages erected by vast impersonal forces arising from globalization and technology: a society that is both anti-political and unpolitical, a society without hope or the means either to imagine or promote an alternative future. It reflects the disillusion of political hopes in liberal and socialist utopias in the twentieth century and a widespread disenchantment with the grand narratives of the Enlightenment about reason and progress, and with modernity itself. The most characteristic expression of this disenchantment is the endless discourses on endism - the end of history, the end of ideology, the end of the nation-state, the end of authority, the end of government, the end of the public realm, the end of politics itself - all have been proclaimed in recent years. Andrew Gamble's new book argues against the fatalism implicit in so many of these discourses, as well as against the fatalism that has always been present in many of the central discourses of modernity. It sets out a defence of politics and the political, explains why we cannot do without politics, and probes the complex relationship between politics and fate, and the continuing and necessary tension between them. This book will be essential reading for students and scholars of politics, public affairs and political thought.

The Politics of the Unpolitical (Routledge Revivals)

Author : Herbert Read
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138891180
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of the Unpolitical (Routledge Revivals) written by Herbert Read and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of fourteen essays, first published in 1943, Herbert Read extends and amplifies the point of view expressed in his successful pamphlet To Hell with Culture, which has been reprinted here. The politics of the unpolitical are the politics of those who strive for human values and not for national or sectional interests. Herbert Read defines these values and demands their recognition as a solvent of social and cultural crises', and looks forward to the future with constructive vision. This book will be of interest to students of politics, history, and cultural studies.

The Formation of the Nazi Constituency 1919-1933 (RLE Nazi Germany & Holocaust)

Author : Thomas Childers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317625811
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book The Formation of the Nazi Constituency 1919-1933 (RLE Nazi Germany & Holocaust) written by Thomas Childers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years preceding publication of this book in 1986 much progress was made in identifying the social sources of support for Hitler’s NSDAP and in determining the tactics employed by the party to mobilise its constituency at grass roots level. It has emerged that the Nazi’s roots were far more diverse than previously assumed, extending beyond the lower middle class to encompass both the affluent bourgeoisie and the working class. This book collects together original studies which represent a distillation of some of the contemporaneous research.

Counter-Democracy

Author : Pierre Rosanvallon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139474719
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Counter-Democracy written by Pierre Rosanvallon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democracy is established as a generally uncontested ideal, while regimes inspired by this form of government fall under constant criticism. Hence, the steady erosion of confidence in representatives that has become one of the major political issues of our time. Amidst these challenges, the paradox remains that while citizens are less likely to make the trip to the ballot box, the world is far from entering a phase of general political apathy. Demonstrations and activism abound in the streets, in cities across the globe and on the internet. Pierre Rosanvallon analyses the mechanisms used to register a citizen's expression of confidence or distrust, and then focuses on the role that distrust plays in democracy from both a historical and theoretical perspective. This radical shift in perspective uncovers a series of practices - surveillance, prevention, and judgement - through which society corrects and exerts pressure.

The Constitutional Legitimacy of Law Officers in the United Kingdom

Author : Conor McCormick
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1509944125
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Constitutional Legitimacy of Law Officers in the United Kingdom written by Conor McCormick and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a detailed account of each law officer's functions and draws on that account as the basis for a conceptual analysis of their constitutional legitimacy. In recent years, the constitutional legitimacy of law officers has been questioned repeatedly because of recurring controversies surrounding the discharge of their varied functions. Indeed, it has become increasingly clear that those functions enable law officers to play a highly influential part in the regulation and exercise of public power throughout the United Kingdom. McCormick argues that the most persuasive framework for analysing the offices which make up this diverse regime involves concentrating on the constitutional values of independence, accountability and trust which underpin it. Both aspects of the book – namely the explanation of individual functions and the conceptual analysis of collective legitimacy – are written in a holistic way which encompasses critical analyses about the Attorney General and Solicitor General for England and Wales; the Counsel General for Wales; the Lord Advocate, Solicitor General and Advocate General for Scotland, as well as the Attorney General and Advocate General for Northern Ireland.