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Scatter 1: The Politics of Politics in Foucault, Heidegger, and Derrida
Geoffrey Bennington
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Description for Scatter 1: The Politics of Politics in Foucault, Heidegger, and Derrida
Paperback. Num Pages: 314 pages, 5 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; HPCF; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 230 x 32. Weight in Grams: 452.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
451g
Number of Pages
314
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823270538
SKU
V9780823270538
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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 certainly an intense reenactment and reinvention of deconstruction.
Diacritics
In these troubled political times, helping us to think about how to respond to violence and to violation without succumbing to the metaphysical dream of the end of politics in and through the end of rhetoric-as if we will ever be done ... Read more
Diacritics
In these troubled political times, helping us to think about how to respond to violence and to violation without succumbing to the metaphysical dream of the end of politics in and through the end of rhetoric-as if we will ever be done ... Read more