Towards a New Concept of the Political - A Defence of Universalism and Difference

This book addresses the current crisis of democratic politics and its phase of 'interregnum' - in which the past finds it hard to die and the future finds it difficult to be born - by proposing a radical redefinition of the concept of the Political.

List of contents

Prologue 1. Our Present as an Interregnum 2. The Other Scene: On Populist Syndrome: Delegitimzation as a Political Strategy 3. State of Exception: From Political Theology to History: Walter Benjamin's Messianism Without Waiting 5. Easts and Wests Afterword

About the author

Giacomo Marramao is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the Roma Tre University, Italy. He is also a member of the Honor Committee of the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris, France, and has been the recipient of numerous academic awards. His research explores theoretical and political philosophy, with particular emphasis on questions of power, hegemony, modernity, and time. He is the author of numerous books, several of which have been translated into various languages, including The Passage West: Philosophy After the Age of the Nation State (2012), Against Power: For an Overhaul of Critical Theory (2016), and The Bewitched World of Capital: Methods, Theory, Politics (2023).

Product details

• Authors: Giacomo Marramao, Giacomo (Roma Tre University Marramao
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032632834
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3263283-4
• No. of pages: 86
• Series: Critiques and Alternatives to Capitalism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Social Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Society & culture: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Political science and theory, Society and culture: general, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Marxism & Communism