Politics Out of History / Wendy Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Wendy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theory.

Progress.

Liberalism.

Political science--History.

Political science.

Political science--Philosophy.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 193 p. )

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ONE. INTRODUCTION

TWO. SYMPTOMS

THREE. DESIRE

FOUR. POWER

FIVE. POLITICS

SIX. DEMOCRACY

SEVEN. FUTURES

NOTES

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-187) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9780691188058

069118805X

OCLC:

1132225521