Between Politics and Antipolitics [electronic resource] : Thinking About Politics After 9/11 /
Howard, Dick.author.
This book traces a dialectic relationship between “politics” and “antipolitics,” the first, as used here, being akin to philosophy as an activity of open inquiry, plural democracy, and truth-finding, and the latter in the realm of ideology, technocracy, and presupposed certainties. It returns back to the emergence of a New Left movement in the 1960s in order to follow the history of this relationship since then. It addresses contemporary debates by looking to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Bloc, and asking in the wake of that: what is a revolution? Finally, it draws on these analyses to examine the age of terrorism after the tragedy of September 11, 2001, and resounds with a call to pursue democracy and real politics in the face of new forms of antipolitics.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
1. “Make these Petrified Relations Dance…”.- 2. “The New Left and the Search for the Political” -- 3. “The Anti-Totalitarian Left between Morality and Politics”.- 4. “Toward a Democratic Manifesto” -- 5. “Philosophy by Other Means. The Philosophical Origins of Sociology”.- 6. “André Gorz and the Philosophical Foundation of the Political”.- 7. “Citizen Habermas”.- 8.  “Rereading Arendt After the Fall of the Wall” -- 9. “The Actuality of the History of Political Thought” -- 10. “The Paradoxical Political Success of an Antipolitical Philosophy”.- 11. “Claude Lefort, A Political Biography”.- 12. “The Necessity of Politics” -- 13. “What is a Revolution? Reflections on the Significance of 1989/1991” -- 14. “The Great War & the Origins of Contemporary Ideology”.- 15. “From Anti-Communism to Anti-Totalitarianism: The Radical Potential of Democracy”.- 16. “What’s New After September 11, 2001?”.
This book traces a dialectic relationship between “politics” and “antipolitics,” the first, as used here, being akin to philosophy as an activity of open inquiry, plural democracy, and truth-finding, and the latter in the realm of ideology, technocracy, and presupposed certainties. It returns back to the emergence of a New Left movement in the 1960s in order to follow the history of this relationship since then. It addresses contemporary debates by looking to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Bloc, and asking in the wake of that: what is a revolution? Finally, it draws on these analyses to examine the age of terrorism after the tragedy of September 11, 2001, and resounds with a call to pursue democracy and real politics in the face of new forms of antipolitics.
Political theory.
United States-Politics and gover.
World politics.
Democracy.
Political Theory.
US Politics.
Political History.
Democracy.