Writing - The Political Test

"Many people have become painfully aware of the detachment of a 'worldless textualism' from anything resembling political reality, a reality to be distinguished from grandiose political pronouncements. Lefort's "Writing" offers a philosophical reflection deeply embeded within the political."--Bernard Flynn, New School for Social Research

Sommario

Translator's Foreword vii

Author's Preface xxxix

The Interposed Body: George Orwell's Ninetenn Eighty-Four 1

Humanism and Anti-Humanism: Homage to Salman Rushdie 20

Tocqueville: Democracy and the Art of Writing 35

An Exploration of the Flesh of the Social: Note on Democracy in America 35

A Thinkng of Contraries: Note on The Old Regime and the Revolution 49

Sade: The Boudoir and the City 67

Guizot: Polemical LIberalism 85

Machiavelli and the Verita Effetuale 109

The Idea of Humanity and the Project of Universal Peace 142

The Revolution as New Religion 159

Three Notes on Leo Strauss 172

Dialogue with Pierre Clastres 207

Philospher? 236

Reflections on the Present 252

Decomposition of Totalitarianism 252

Rebirth of Democracy 256

The Test of Truth 273

Index 281

Info autore

Claude Lefort

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Claude Lefort
• Con la collaborazione di: David Ames Curtis (Traduzione)
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 04.07.2000
• EAN: 9780822325208
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2520-8
• Pagine: 360
• Dimensioni: 150 mm x 236 mm x 27 mm
• Peso: 594 g
• Serie: Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Linguistica generale e comparata; Politikwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein