| Categories of the Impolitical Contributor(s): Esposito, Roberto (Author), Parsley, Connal (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0823264211 ISBN-13: 9780823264216 Publisher: Fordham University Press OUR PRICE: $34.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Philosophy | Political |
| Dewey: 320.01 |
| LCCN: 2014045388 |
| Series: Commonalities |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.85 lbs) 280 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Esposito, Roberto: - Roberto Esposito is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa. His many books in English include Bios: Biopolitics and Philosophy and Two: The Machine of Political Theology and the Place of Thought (Fordham).Parsley, Connal: - Connal Parsley is a Lecturer in law at the University of Kent. |