Politics Out of History.
ISBN-13:
9780691070841
ISBN-10:
0691070849
Author:
Wendy Brown
Publication date:
2001
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Format:
Hardcover
184 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780691070841
ISBN-10:
0691070849
Author:
Wendy Brown
Publication date:
2001
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Format:
Hardcover
184 pages
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Politics Out of History. (ISBN-13: 9780691070841 and ISBN-10: 0691070849), written by authors
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What happens to left and liberal political orientations when faith in progress is broken, when both the sovereign individual and sovereign states seem tenuous, when desire seems as likely to seek punishment as freedom, when all political conviction is revealed as contingent and subjective? Politics Out of History is animated by the question of how we navigate the contemporary political landscape when the traditional compass points of modernity have all but disappeared. Wendy Brown diagnoses a range of contemporary political tendencies--from moralistic high-handedness to low-lying political despair in politics, from the difficulty of formulating political alternatives to reproaches against theory in intellectual life--as the consequence of this disorientation. Politics Out of History also presents a provocative argument for a new approach to thinking about history--one that forsakes the idea that history has a purpose and treats it instead as a way of illuminating openings in the present by, for example, identifying the haunting and constraining effects of past injustices unresolved. Brown also argues for a revitalized relationship between intellectual and political life, one that cultivates the autonomy of each while promoting their interlocutory potential. This book will be essential reading for all who find the trajectories of contemporary liberal democracies bewildering and are willing to engage readings of a range of thinkers--Freud, Marx, Nietzsche, Spinoza, Benjamin, Derrida--to rethink democratic possibility in our time.
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