Genealogies of Political Modernity

What is political modernity? And how much of its concepts and structures has changed or remained the same with the advent of the so-called globalization? What does it mean, from a political perspective, that we live in a postmodern era? This book discusses these issues in light of the key authors and texts of the continental philosophical tradition: from Carl Schmitt to Giorgio Agamben, from Thomas Hobbes to Michel Foucault. Looking at the roots of the current historical crisis that characterizes Western political regimes, this book gazes into the past in order to trace the possible development of our current global era, in which all the classical concepts and our symbolic resources seem to be called into question, leaving a vacuum of meaning for political action as much as for political theory.>

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• Authors: Antonio Cerella, Antonio (Kingston University London Cerella, Dr. Antonio Cerella, Dr. Antonio (Kingston University London Cerella
• Assisted by: Arthur Bradley (Editor), Michael Dillon (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781350079465
• ISBN: 978-1-350-07946-5
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Political Theologies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, RELIGION / Theology, Theology, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Political science and theory, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge