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Democracy and the Political Unconscious
Noelle McAfee
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Description for Democracy and the Political Unconscious
Hardback. Proposing a political theory for a post-9/11 world, this title addresses the root causes of our seemingly endless war on terror and considers the "talking cures" of testimony, such as South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and other public deliberations that have helped societies work through, rather than act out, their conflicts. Series: New Directions in Critical Theory. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 494.
Political philosopher Noelle McAfee proposes a powerful new political theory for our post-9/11 world, in which an old pathology-the repetition compulsion-has manifested itself in a seemingly endless war on terror. McAfee argues that the quintessentially human desire to participate in a world with others is the key to understanding the public sphere and to creating a more democratic society, a world that all members can have a hand in shaping. But when some are effectively denied this participation, whether through trauma or terror, instead of democratic politics, there arises a political unconscious, an effect of desires unarticulated, failures to sublimate, ... Read more
Political philosopher Noelle McAfee proposes a powerful new political theory for our post-9/11 world, in which an old pathology-the repetition compulsion-has manifested itself in a seemingly endless war on terror. McAfee argues that the quintessentially human desire to participate in a world with others is the key to understanding the public sphere and to creating a more democratic society, a world that all members can have a hand in shaping. But when some are effectively denied this participation, whether through trauma or terror, instead of democratic politics, there arises a political unconscious, an effect of desires unarticulated, failures to sublimate, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
New Directions in Critical Theory
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231138802
SKU
V9780231138802
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About Noelle McAfee
Noelle McAfee is a visiting associate professor of philosophy at George Mason University and the associate editor of the Kettering Review. Her previous publications include Habermas, Kristeva, and Citizenship; Julia Kristeva; and most recently a special issue of Hypatia on feminist engagements in democratic theory.
Reviews for Democracy and the Political Unconscious
unique contribution to the ongoing political turn to psychoanalysis.
James Manos PhiloSOPHIA
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