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The Political Forms of Modern Society

Author : Claude Lefort
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262620545
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book The Political Forms of Modern Society written by Claude Lefort and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1986-08-26 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claude Lefort is one of the leading social and political theorists in France today. This anthology of his most important work published over the last four decades makes his writing widely accessible to an English-speaking audience for the first time. With exceptional skill Lefort combines the analysis of contemporary political events with a sensitivity to the history of political thought. His critical account of the development of bureaucracy and totalitarianism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe is a timely contribution to current debates about the nature and shortcomings of these societies. His incisive analyses of Marx's theory of history and concept of ideology provide the backdrop for a highly original account of the role of symbolism in modern societies. While critical of many traditional assumptions and doctrines, Lefort develops a political position based on a reappraisal of the idea of human rights and a reconsideration of what "democracy" means today. The Political Forms of Modern Society is a major contribution to contemporary social and political theory. The volume includes a substantial introduction that describes the context of Lefort's writings and highlights the central themes of his work.

The Philosophy of Claude Lefort

Author : Bernard Flynn
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810121069
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Claude Lefort written by Bernard Flynn and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of Claude Lefort offers an account of Lefort's accomplishment - its unique merits, its relation to political philosophy within the Continental tradition, and its great relevance today.

Social Forms: A Short History of Political Art

Author : Christian Viveros-Faune
Publisher : David Zwirner Books
ISBN 13 : 1941701906
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book Social Forms: A Short History of Political Art written by Christian Viveros-Faune and published by David Zwirner Books. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an increasingly polarized world, with shifting and extreme politics, Social Forms illustrates artists at the forefront of political and social resistance. Highlighting different moments of crisis and how these are reflected and preserved through crucial artworks, it also asks how to make art in the age of Brexit, Trump, and the refugee and climate crises. In Social Forms: A Short History of Political Art, renowned critic, curator, and writer Christian Viveros-Fauné has picked fifty representative artworks—from Francisco de Goya’s The Disasters of War (1810–1820) to David Hammons’s In the Hood (1993)—that give voice to some of modern art’s strongest calls to political action. In accessible and witty entries on each piece, Viveros-Fauné paints a picture of the context in which each work was created, the artist’s background, and the historical impact of each contribution. At times artists create projects that subvert existing power structures; at other moments they make artwork so powerful it challenges the very fabric of society. Whether it is Picasso’s Guernica and its place at the 1937 Worlds Fair, or Jenny Holzer’s Truisms (1977–1979), which still stop us in our tracks, this book tells the story behind some of the most important and unexpected encounters between artworks and the real worlds they engage with. Never professing to be a definitive history of political art, Social Forms delivers a unique and compelling portrait of how artists during the last 150 years have dealt with changing political systems, the violence of modern warfare, the rise of consumer culture worldwide, the prevalence of inequality and racism, and the challenges of technology.

Varieties of Political Experience

Author : Gianfranco Poggi
Publisher : ECPR Press
ISBN 13 : 1910259314
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Varieties of Political Experience written by Gianfranco Poggi and published by ECPR Press. This book was released on 2024-08-22 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The management of contemporary public affairs involves many different centres of social power, engaged in complex and mutable relations, ranging from willing cooperation, to competition, to out-and-out conflict. This book emphasises the role played in these relations by political institutions in particular. Generally, these claim a special competence to authorise and regulate the activities of other institutions, but their claim is often contested by other power centres, serving different and sometimes contrasting interests. To explore those processes, the author, after identifying the nature of ‘the political’, considers its dealings with other forms of social power. Among these, economic power gets particular attention, in view of the contemporary salience of the ‘state vs market’ issue. But this book also considers the relations between politics at one end, and law, the public sphere, citizenship, and religion at the other.

The Legitimacy of Modern Democracy

Author : Pedro T. Magalhães
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351654004
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Legitimacy of Modern Democracy written by Pedro T. Magalhães and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By re-examining the political thought of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt and Hans Kelsen, this book offers a reflection on the nature of modern democracy and the question of its legitimacy. Pedro T. Magalhães shows that present-day elitist, populist and pluralist accounts of democracy owe, in diverse and often complicated ways, an intellectual debt to the interwar era, German-speaking, scholarly and political controversies on the problem(s) of modern democracy. A discussion of Weber’s ambivalent diagnosis of modernity and his elitist views on democracy, as they were elaborated especially in the 1910s, sets the groundwork for the study. Against that backdrop, Schmitt’s interwar political thought is interpreted as a form of neo-authoritarian populism, whereas Kelsen evinces robust, though not entirely unproblematic, pluralist consequences. In the conclusion, the author draws on Claude Lefort’s concept of indeterminacy to sketch a potentially more fruitful way than can be gleaned from the interwar German discussions of conceiving the nexus between the elitist, populist and pluralist faces of modern democracy. The Legitimacy of Modern Democracy will be of interest to political theorists, political philosophers, intellectual historians, theoretically oriented political scientists, and legal scholars working in the subfields of constitutional law and legal theory. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315157566, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license

Aesthetics and Political Culture in Modern Society

Author : Henrik Kaare Nielsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351123165
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Aesthetics and Political Culture in Modern Society written by Henrik Kaare Nielsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do aesthetic appeals to senses and emotions in political debate necessarily marginalise political reason and reduce citizens to consumers – thus dangerously undermining democracy? Or is sensuous-emotional engagement, on the contrary, a basic fact of the political process and a crucial precondition for revitalising democracy? Aesthetics and Political Culture in Modern Society investigates the current interrelationship between aesthetic practice and political practice in Western democracies, focusing on its impact on democratic political culture. Henrik Kaare Nielsen argues that aesthetic interventions in the political process do not by definition undermine politics’ content of reason. Instead, a differentiation must be made between a multiplicity of aesthetic forms of intervention – some of which tend to weaken the political judgement of citizens while other forms tend to stimulate competent judgement. This book will be of interest to scholars in the fields of political science, sociology, media studies, and cultural studies.

Institutions in Modern Society

Author : Jeffrey E. Nash
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780930390068
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Institutions in Modern Society written by Jeffrey E. Nash and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1993 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find more information about Rowman & Littlefield titles please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com.

A Social Theory of the Nation-State

Author : Daniel Chernilo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134150121
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book A Social Theory of the Nation-State written by Daniel Chernilo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-03-25 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Social Theory of the Nation-State construes a novel and original social theory of the nation-state. It rejects nationalistic ways of thinking that take the nation-state for granted as much as globalist orthodoxy that speaks of its current and definitive decline.

Machiavelli in the Making

Author : Claude Lefort
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810124378
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Machiavelli in the Making written by Claude Lefort and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-30 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Machiavelli in the Making, the influential French scholar and public intellectual Claude Lefort introduces a wholly novel interpretation of Niccoló Machiavelli's oeuvre, revealing in the Florentine's thought a thoroughly modern concept of the political with implications for "our experience of politics here and now." Lefort extricates Machiavelli's thought from the dominant interpretations of Machiavelli as the founder of "objective" political science, which, having liberated itself from the religious and moralizing tendencies of medieval political reflection, attempts to arrive at a realistic discourse on the operations of raw power. Lefort ultimately finds that Machiavelli's discourse opens the "place of the political," which had previously been occupied by theology and morality. An essential contribution to the ongoing reassessment of Machiavelli's significance, Machiavelli in the Making also stands as a crucial text for the understanding of Lefort's later writings on democracy and totallitarianism.

Governmentality

Author : Mitchell Dean
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780803975897
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book Governmentality written by Mitchell Dean and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1999-10-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governmentality draws on Foucault's work along with wider analytical frameworks to reclaim centre stage for this sociological concept. The author argues for a new understanding of how the individual is related to the state and vice versa.

Classes in Modern Society

Author : T. B. Bottomore
Publisher : New York : Pantheon Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Classes in Modern Society written by T. B. Bottomore and published by New York : Pantheon Books. This book was released on 1966 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The People and Politics

Author : George Washington Hosmer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The People and Politics written by George Washington Hosmer and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Protest in Late Modern Societies

Author : Monika Banaś
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100087494X
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Protest in Late Modern Societies written by Monika Banaś and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses a broadly understood phenomenon of protest from several perspectives, including historical, cultural, social, political, environmental and semiotic. Through their analyses, the authors undertake to envision the possible evolution of the forms of contestation in the further decades of the 21st century, taking into account the specificity of the globalisation processes. A multidimensional approach offered in this volume makes it possible to capture and identify new features of contemporary contestation and those that seem unchanged despite the passage of time and altering audiences. Examples from Europe (France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Ireland, Malta, Bulgaria, Poland, Belarus, Russia), America (the United States, Mexico, Chile) and Far East (Hong Kong and China) are relevant case studies that show the faces of contestation while reaching for new or modified rhetoric, symbolism, communication channels and the so-called modus operandi of protest initiators, active and passive participants and short- and long-distant observers. The book will be of value to a wide audience, particularly to the researchers studying contestation, social resistance, individual and collective disobedience, crisis management and cultural/social dynamic of protests. It will also be of interest to experts and individuals from outside the academia like civil activists, practitioners and NGOs compelled by contemporary processes (tensions) occurring between the state, power, society and individuals.

Varieties of Political Experience

Author : Gianfranco Poggi
Publisher : ECPR Press
ISBN 13 : 1907301755
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Varieties of Political Experience written by Gianfranco Poggi and published by ECPR Press. This book was released on 2014-06-09 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The management of contemporary public affairs involves many different centres of social power, engaged in complex and mutable relations, ranging from willing cooperation, to competition, to out-and-out conflict. This book emphasises the role played in these relations by political institutions in particular. Generally, these claim a special competence to authorise and regulate the activities of other institutions, but their claim is often contested by other power centres, serving different and sometimes contrasting interests. To explore those processes, the author, after identifying the nature of ‘the political’, considers its dealings with other forms of social power. Among these, economic power gets particular attention, in view of the contemporary salience of the ‘state vs market’ issue. But this book also considers the relations between politics at one end, and law, the public sphere, citizenship, and religion at the other.

Claude Lefort

Author : M. Plot
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230375588
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Claude Lefort written by M. Plot and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first English language volume to offer such a wide-ranging scholarly and intellectual perspective on Claude Lefort. It constitutes the most comprehensive attempt to reconstruct Lefort's engagement with his theoretical interlocutors as well as his influence on today's democratic thought and contemporary continental political philosophy.

The Politics of Authenticity

Author : Marshall Berman
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789605113
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Authenticity written by Marshall Berman and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this acclaimed exploration of the search for "authentic" individual identity, Marshall Berman explores the historical experiences and needs out of which this new radicalism arose. Focussing on eighteenth-century Paris, a time and place in which a distinctively modern form of society was just coming into its own, Berman shows how the ideal of authenticity-of a self that could organize the individual's energy and direct it toward his own happiness-articulated eighteenth-century man's deepest responses to this brave new world, and his most ardent hope for a new life in it. Exploring in particular the ideas of Montesquieu and Rousseau, Berman shows how the ideal of authenticity was radically opposed to the bourgeois, capitalistic idea of "self-interest."

Complications

Author : Claude Lefort
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231133005
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Complications written by Claude Lefort and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complications: Communism and the Dilemmas of Democracyties together the central concerns of the work of Claude Lefort over the past half-century. A pivotal figure in French thought, Lefort studied under Maurice Merleau-Ponty, cofounded with Cornelius Castoriadis the influential journal Socialisme ou Barbarie, and famously engaged in a heated debate with Jean-Paul Sartre over the Soviet Union and Communist parties in the West. He has influenced generations of political thinkers and throughout his career has offered invaluable leftist, non-communist critiques of both liberalism and Communism. It is the prevailing belief that the death of communism was a victory for liberal democracy. In Complications, however, Lefort challenges this interpretation and provides new ways of understanding the rise and fall of the Soviet Union and the Communist phenomenon. Lefort engages the work of prominent historians Martin Malia and Francois Furet and shows how their emphasis on "illusion" and ideology led to their failure to understand the logic and workings of the Communist Party, and its impact on Soviet society, and the reasons why so many in the West had Communist sympathies. He also maintains that those who regard the end of Communism as the triumph of markets and "freedom" restrict the scope of democratic thought and the possibility of greater social equality. Lefort contends that Communism must be seen as part of a larger history of modernity and believes that the diagnosis of its death is dangerous to the future of democracy. In the tradition of Hannah Arendt and Raymond Aron, Lefort complicates the pieties of historical understanding and offers a new approach to thinking about totalitarianism and a more vital democracy.