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Geoffrey Bennington - Scatter 1: The Politics of Politics in Foucault, Heidegger, and Derrida - 9780823270521 - V9780823270521
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Scatter 1: The Politics of Politics in Foucault, Heidegger, and Derrida

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Description for Scatter 1: The Politics of Politics in Foucault, Heidegger, and Derrida Hardback. Num Pages: 314 pages, 5 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; HPCF; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.

What if political rhetoric is unavoidable, an irreducible part of politics itself? In contrast to the familiar denunciations of political horse-trading, grandstanding, and corporate manipulation from those lamenting the crisis in liberal democracy, this book argues that the “politics of politics,” usually associated with rhetoric and sophistry, is, like it or not, part of politics from the start.
Denunciations of the sorry state of current politics draw on a dogmatism and moralism that share an essentially metaphysical and Platonic ground. Failure to deconstruct that ground generates a philosophically and politically debilitating selfrighteousness that this book attempts to understand and ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
314
Condition
New
Number of Pages
314
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823270521
SKU
V9780823270521
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About Geoffrey Bennington
Geoffrey Bennington is Asa G. Candler Professor of Modern French Thought at Emory University.

Reviews for Scatter 1: The Politics of Politics in Foucault, Heidegger, and Derrida
"Bennington's Scatter 1 is a sophisticated, detailed, and strikingly original demonstration of the political efficacy of deconstruction. As always with Bennington to read him is to undergo an education in reading."
-Robert Bernasconi Pennsylvania State University

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