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The Ethics of Post-communism History and Social Praxis in Russia.
Van Pelt Library HN530.2.A8 P769 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Post-communism--Russia (Federation).
- Post-communism.
- Russia (Federation).
- Russia (Federation)--Politics and government--1991-.
- Politics and government.
- Soviet Union--Politics and government--1945-1991.
- Soviet Union.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 266 pages ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
- Summary:
- The Ethics of Postcommunism offers a radical reinterpretation of contemporary Russian politics in terms of Giorgio Agamben's political philosophy. Reconstructing Agamben's conception of the end of history that challenges the well-known Hegelian thesis, Prozorov approaches postcommunist Russia as a post-historical terrain, in which the teleological dimension of politics has been deactivated. Tracing the suspension of the historical dialectic from the late-soviet period to the Medvedev presidency, the author develops a paradigm of 'inoperative' social praxis proper to the postcommunist condition.
- Contents:
- 1 Universal Postcommunism: Kojève and Agamben on the End of History 1
- To Uryupinsk 1
- The End of History and the Study of Postcommunism 3
- The Workless Slave 9
- Profane Messianism 14
- Subtractive Negation 18
- The Intellectual 22
- Towards a Post-historical Ethos 28
- 2 A Time Like No Other: Russian Politics after the End of History 38
- The Long Farewell to the 1990s 38
- Timelessness, Chronos and Kairos 40
- The Lingering of the Political 45
- The End of Time and the Time of the End 50
- Inoperosity 54
- Postcommunist Playland 59
- Post-transitionalism and its Double 63
- The Realm of Pure Synchrony 69
- Why Russia No Longer Celebrates November 7 75
- The Legacy of Alexander Rutskoi 79
- Poetry and Politics in the Ethics of Postcommunism 84
- 3 The Janitor Generation: The Ethics of Disengagement in the Late-Soviet Period 89
- The Refusal of Work in Soviet Counter-Culture 89
- Ivanov, or Beside the System 97
- What is a Pure Performative? 101
- Para-Soviet Praxis 107
- Identity and Potentiality in Para-Soviet Milieus 112
- Between Law and Love 119
- The Paradox of Perestroika 130
- 4 From a Shining Void: The Dialectic of Bespredel in Postcommunist Social Praxis 137
- The Empty Cage 137
- The Premonition of Civil War 143
- Bespredel 147
- The Barge Hauler's Aporia 154
- A Prayer for the Irreparable 163
- October 1993 171
- Emptiness All Around 176
- How to Play with Lost Objects 183
- From Identity to Habit 190
- 5 The Invisible Victory: Experimentum Linguae and the Appropriation of Anomie 198
- The Anomie of Law 198
- Cratocracy 203
- As Not 209
- The Secret Wisdom of the Dancing Girls 217
- Free time and the Politics of Decreation 224
- The Generic Community 230
- Being in Love 236
- Conclusion 245.
- ISBN:
- 9780230224131
- 023022413X
- OCLC:
- 294885564
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