Political theory and contemporary philosophy : concepts of the one and the many in contemporary thought / [edited by] Artemy Magun.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Magun, Artemiĭ, editor.

Series:

Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy

Political theory and contemporary philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Many (Philosophy).

One (The One in philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Continuum, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This volume in the Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy series examines one of the most important topics in contemporary political theory: how to conceptualize the relationship between the one and the many. The essays discuss how to reconcile multiple ontologies without subsuming them to a totalitarian unity. While one school of thought (Deleuze, Negri) seeks to create a new ontology based on the many instead of the one, (which, politically, is close to anarchy), another proposes to understand the "one" as the "ultra-one" of the event (Badiou). In this groundbreaking work, leading thinkers explore these debates and offer alternative concepts. Building on Jean-Luc Nancy's essay who proposes an ontology of "singular plurality," contributors aim to synthesize the one and the many and suggest different ways of forming collectives, beyond the dominant representative political forms. An original and challenging work, Politics of the One addresses new possible ways of bringing people together, integrating philosophy with theoretical and practical problems of politics."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

About the authors ; Introduction

Part I The other One. 1 More than One / Jean-Luc Nancy ; 2 The fragility of the One / Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback ; 3 Unity and solitude / Artemy Magun

Part II Event of the One. 4 Genesis of the event in Deleuze: From the multiple to the general / Keti Chukhrov ; 5 Truth and infinity in Badiou and Heidegger / Alexey Chernyakov ; 6 Suspension of the One: Badiou's objective phenomenology and politics of the subject / Vitaly Kosykhin ; 7 Unity in crisis: Protometaphysical and postmetaphysical decisions / Jussi Backman

Part III The Singular Plural. 8 Vegetal democracy: The plant that is not One / Michael Marder ; 9 Dividuum and condividuality / Gerald Raunig

Part IV Unity of the World. 10 The One: Composition or event? For a politics of the becoming / Boyan Manchev ; 11 Elemental nature as the ultimate common ground of the world community / Susanna Lindberg

Part V Politics of the One. 12 Negative imperialization Artemy Magun ; 13 ... et unus non solus, sed in pluribus: A Citizen as Eikon / Oleg Kharkhordin ; 14 Drawing lots in politics: The one, the few, and the many / Yves Sintomer ; 15 More than two: The One as singularity in ambiguity / Gerald Raunig

Index of names

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501301643

1501301640

9781283848619

1283848619

9781441188816

1441188819

OCLC:

820562316