TY  - GEN
T1  - Politics out of history
A1  - Brown, Wendy, 1955-
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 2001
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1044746528
AB  - "What happens to left and liberal political orientations when faith in progress is broken, when both the sovereign individual and sovereign states seem tenuous, when desire seems as likely to seek punishment as freedom, when all political conviction is revealed as contingent and subjective? Politics Out of History is animated by the question of how we navigate the contemporary political landscape when the traditional compass points of modernity have all but disappeared. Wendy Brown diagnoses a range of contemporary political tendencies - from moralistic high-handedness to low-lying political despair in politics, from the difficulty of formulating political alternatives to reproaches against theory in intellectual life - as the consequence of this disorientation. Politics Out of History also presents a provocative argument for a new approach to thinking about history - one that forsakes the idea that history has a purpose and treats it instead as a way of illuminating openings in the present by, for example, identifying the haunting and constraining effects of past injustices unresolved. Brown also argues for a revitalized relationship between intellectual and political life, one that cultivates the autonomy of each while promoting their interlocutory potential. This book will be essential reading for all who find the trajectories of contemporary liberal democracies bewildering and are willing to engage readings of a range of thinkers - Freud, Marx, Nietzsche, Spinoza, Benjamin, Derrida - to rethink democratic possibility in our time."--Book cover
CN  - JA71 .B76 2001eb
SN  - 9780691188058
SN  - 069118805X
SN  - 0691070849
SN  - 9780691070841
SN  - 0691070857
SN  - 9780691070858
KW  - Political science : Philosophy.
KW  - Political science : History.
KW  - Liberalism.
KW  - Progress.
KW  - Feminist theory.
KW  - Idées politiques.
KW  - Science politique : Histoire.
KW  - Libéralisme.
KW  - Progrès.
KW  - Féminisme : Philosophie.
KW  - Théorie féministe.
KW  - liberalism.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Essays.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Government : General.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Government : National.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Reference.
KW  - Feminist theory
KW  - Liberalism
KW  - Political science
KW  - Political science : Philosophy
KW  - Progress
KW  - Geschichtstheorie
KW  - Politische Philosophie
KW  - Politischer Wandel
KW  - Politische Theorie
KW  - Politieke theorie.
KW  - Links (politiek)
KW  - Vooruitgang.
KW  - Philosophie politique.
KW  - History
ER  -