A Politics of Emancipation - The Miguel Abensour Reader

Despite his influence in utopian studies and democratic theory, French philosopher Miguel Abensour (1939-2017) has yet to be fully discovered in the English-speaking world as only a fraction of his work has been translated. A Politics of Emancipation fills this void by translating a selection of his seminal essays into English for the first time. The Reader provides a systematic overview of Abensour's work and the two inseparable projects that govern his approach to political theory: on the one hand, a radical critique of all forms of domination and, on the other, a desire to conceptualize the political as the realm of freedom and emancipation. For Abensour, both projects are to be undertaken together in order to avoid the double trap of an evacuation of conflict from politics and the reduction of politics to a form of domination. In other words, a politics of emancipation requires a "ruthless" critique of domination coupled with an analysis of politics as the domain within which human beings experience freedom and equality.

Info autore

Martin Breaugh is Professor of Political Theory at York University. He is the author of The Plebeian Experience: A Discontinuous History of Political Freedom. Paul Mazzocchi is Adjunct Professor at York University. Together they are coeditors (with Christopher Holman, Rachel Magnusson, and Devin Penner) of Thinking Radical Democracy: The Return to Politics in Post-War France.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Miguel/ Breaugh Abensour, Abensour Miguel
• Con la collaborazione di: Breaugh Martin (Editore), Mazzocchi Paul (Editore)
• Editore: State University of New York Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 02.12.2024
• EAN: 9781438498249
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-9824-9
• Pagine: 339
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Serie: SUNY series in Contemporary French Thought
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Filosofia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Individual Philosophers, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Utopias, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Political science and theory