Sergei Prozorov is Professor of Political Science at the University of Jyväskylä. He is the author of ten books including Ontology and World Politics: Void Universalism I and Theory of Political Subject: Void Universalism II, both published by Routledge. He has published over 30 articles in major international journals. His research interests include political theory, continental philosophy, biopolitics, democracy and totalitarianism.
Introduction: On This and That
In Praise of Poseurs
Rethinking Pluralism
Politics and its Others
What is a Procedure?
Pluralism beyond Reductionism and Parallelism
PART 1. MAPPING THE PLURAL: ETHICS, AESTHETICS, GOVERNMENT, THEORY
Chapter 1. Ethics: The Deposition of the Self
In Excess of Every Totality
The Privilege of Asymmetry
The Expelled Other
Chapter 2. Aesthetics: The Composition of Forms
The Idle Work
The Ambivalence of Political Art
Becoming Beautiful
Chapter 3. Government: The Disposition of Things
The Providential Machine
Order and Equivalence
(Dis)Ordering Worlds
Chapter 4. Theory: The Exposition of the World
Capacity for Elaboration
The Paradoxes of Theoretical Politics
Omnipotence and Truth
Politics Revisited
Part II. NAVIGATING THE PLURAL: TEN THEOREMS OF PLURALISM
Chapter 5. Manners of Appearance: Procedures, Worlds and Objects
Procedures and Worlds
Procedures and Objects
A Tentative Typology
Chapter 6. From Plurality to Pluralism: Navigating between the
Incommensurable
Beyond Reductionism: Saving Appearances
Beyond Parallelism: Coexistence without Coordination
Errancy: The Irreducibility of the Incommensurable
The Archipelago
Passages: From Domination to Synthesis
Chapter 7. Against the Temptation of Coherence
Integrity and the Limits of Politicization
The Incoherent: On Martin Heidegger and Michael Jackson
Objections: Domination, Revolution, Democracy
Chapter 8. The Shimmer of the World: Pluralism vs. Paradoxico-Criticism
The Many and the Fractured One
Is There a Monoculture?
The Powerless Paradox
Co-Appearance: Be
Beyond Event and Truth
Appendix: Ten Theorems of Pluralism
Bibliography
Index
