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Modernity and the Political Fix

"From their decisive emergence in the late eighteenth century, modernity and modern politics were long haunted by irony and paradox. Ours, however, is the age of the implosion of modernity. Modernity has degenerated into self-parody. The polarities that an ironic grasp of it could potentially a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gibson, Andrew
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2019.
Colección:Political Theologies Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Intro; Halftitle page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Epigraph; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Modernity and the Political Fix; Ironical modernity; Byron as paradigm; Benjamin and 'satanic modernity'; Functions of modern literature; 1 The Implosion of Modernity; The way we live now; Twelve features of the neoliberal mythos; Leibniz triumphans; Political theology and counterdemocracy; 2 Absolute Historicity; Heidegger and radical finitude; Foucault and his methods; Joyce's historical materialism; 3 Event; Back to Badiou; Pro and contra the event
  • Kant and speculative reasonWoolf's 'strata of being'; 4 Remainder; Carpaccio and the atomized emporium; 'Mondes atones' from Hobbes to Schopenhauer; Wagner without redemption; 5 The People Untransformed; The unbridged gap; Agon of Weimar; Joseph Roth and 'the indolence of the heart'; Canetti and general solipsism; Rancière, Orwell and knowing the people; 6 Transmission; A melancholic-ecstatic conception of history; Occultation and the survival of truth; Lacanian caveats; Transmission against the grain; Conclusion: A Political Theology; An inductive thought; Political theology and its critics
  • Schmitt, Blumenberg, LefortMetaphorics from the Old Testament to Kierkegaard; In the end, the poets; Notes; Index