Politics out of history /

"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? Pol...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brown, Wendy, 1955- (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press [2001]
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv36zqr5
Table of Contents:
  • Politics Out of History
  • Symptoms
  • Moralism as Anti-Politics
  • Desire
  • The Desire to Be Punished: Freud's "'A Child Is Being Beaten'"
  • Power
  • Power without Logic without Marx
  • Politics
  • Politics without Banisters: Genealogical Politics in Nietzsche and Foucault
  • Democracy
  • Democracy against Itself: Nietzsche's Challenge
  • Futures
  • Specters and Angels: Benjamin and Derrida.