Refusal of Politics

Informationen zum Autor Laurent Dubreuil is Professor of Comparative Literature, Romance Studies and Cognitive Science at Cornell University. He is the author of six books of philosophy and literary theory, including The Intellective Space (2015) and Empire of Language (2013). Since 2011, he has served as the Editor of diacritics. Klappentext A radical, elliptical essay in political theory This book belongs to a particular tradition of radical thought, at the crossroads of French leftism, Italian contemporary philosophy and English-speaking academic activism. Laurent Dubreuil develops a conceptual critique of today's totalitarian democracy. He claims that while we need to elaborate a forceful and precise attack against present forms of domination, we may, at the same time, locate their roots within politics itself. In other words, if differences between regimes, societies, and subjective productions do exist, the deeds of all sorts of known politics ultimately derive from the very nature, structure, and destination of political order. Dubreuil provocatively proposes an extremist rethinking of the limits of politics - toward a break from politics, the political and policies. Rather than yet another re-articulation, he calls for a refusal of politics, suggesting a form of apolitics that would make our lives more livable. Laurent Dubreuil is Professor of French, Francophone and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. Cory Browning is Assistant Professor of French at the University of Oregon. Zusammenfassung Dubreuil provocatively proposes an extremist rethinking of the limits of politics – toward a break from politics, the political and policies. He calls for a refusal of politics, suggesting a form of apolitics that would make our lives more liveable. Inhaltsverzeichnis Opening Opinion1. Apolitics and Politics2. Liveable Interruption3. Forms of ExperienceNotesIndex

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• Authors: Laurent Deubreuil, Laurent Dubreuil, Laurent (Cornell University) Dubreuil, Laurent (Professor of Comparative Litera Dubreuil, Laurent (Professor of Comparative Literature Dubreuil, Professor of Comparative Literature Roma Dubreuil, Dubreuil Laurent
• Assisted by: Cory Browning (Translation), Cory (Assistant Professor of French Browning (Translation)
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.09.2016
• EAN: 9781474416757
• ISBN: 978-1-4744-1675-7
• No. of pages: 128
• Series: Incitements; Incitements
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education