Chantal Mouffe: The Return of the Political (1993–) [English, Spanish]
Filed under book | Tags: · agonism, agonistic pluralism, citizenship, community, democracy, feminism, justice, moral theory, philosophy, pluralism, politics, postmodern, theory
“A powerful new understanding of citizenship, democracy and pluralism.
In this work, Mouffe argues that liberal democracy misunderstands the problems of ethnic, religious and nationalist conflicts because of its inadequate conception of politics. He suggests that the democratic revolution may be jeopardized by a lack of understanding of citizenship, community and pluralism. Mouffe examines the work of Schmidt and Rawls and explores feminist theory, in an attempt to place the project of radical and plural democracy on a more adequate foundation than is provided by liberal theory.”
Publisher Verso, London, 1993
ISBN 0860914860, 9780860914860
156 pages
Review: Judith Squires (Radical Philosophy, 1995).
The Return of the Political (English, 1993, updated on 2012-7-31)
El retorno de lo político (Spanish, trans. Marco Aurelio Galmarini, 1999, 6 MB, updated on 2020-10-23)
The Return of the Political (English, 2005, EPUB, added on 2020-10-26)
Philip Armstrong: Reticulations: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Networks of the Political (2009)
Filed under book | Tags: · citizenship, communism, community, deterritorialization, marxism, network culture, networks, philosophy, politics, social movements, technology
“Significantly advancing our notion of what constitutes a network, Philip Armstrong proposes a rethinking of political public space that specifically separates networks from the current popular discussion of globalization and information technology.
Analyzing a wide range of Jean-Luc Nancy’s works, Reticulations shows how his project of articulating the political in terms of singularities, pluralities, and multiplicities can deepen our understanding of networks and how they influence community and politics. Even more striking is the way Armstrong associates this general complex in Nancy’s writing with his concern for what Nancy calls the retreat of the political. Armstrong highlights what Nancy’s perspective on networks reveals about movement politics as seen in the 1999 protests in Seattle against the World Trade Organization, the impact of technology on citizenship, and finally how this perspective critiques the model of networked communism constructed by Hardt and Negri.
Contesting the exclusive link between technology and networks, Reticulations ultimately demonstrates how network society creates an entirely new politics, one surprisingly rooted in community.”
Publisher University of Minnesota Press, 2009
Volume 27 of Electronic mediations
ISBN 0816654905, 9780816654901
307 pages
PDF (updated on 2014-9-20)
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