Gabriel Rockhill examines the widespread understanding that we are living in an era of globalization that is bound by economic and technological networks and an unquestionable faith in democracy, replacing it with a counter-history that accounts for the diversity of lived experience and offers new ways to imagine the future.
Gabriel Rockhill examines the widespread understanding that we are living in an era of globalization that is bound by economic and technological networks and an unquestionable faith in democracy, replacing it with a counter-history that accounts for the diversity of lived experience and offers new ways to imagine the future.
Gabriel Rockhill is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University and the author, editor, and translator of many books, including Jacques Rancière: History, Politics, Aesthetics, also published by Duke University Press, and Interventions in Contemporary Thought: History, Politics, Aesthetics.
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Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Toward a Counter-History of the Present 1 1. A Specter Is Haunting Globalization 11 2. Are We Really Living in a Technological Era? 33 3. What Is the Use of Democracy? Urgency of an Inappropriate Question 51 Afterword. Taking Charge of the Meanings and Direction of History 103 Notes 109 Bibliography 133 Index 143
Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Toward a Counter-History of the Present 1 1. A Specter Is Haunting Globalization 11 2. Are We Really Living in a Technological Era? 33 3. What Is the Use of Democracy? Urgency of an Inappropriate Question 51 Afterword. Taking Charge of the Meanings and Direction of History 103 Notes 109 Bibliography 133 Index 143
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