Mark Featherstone

Tocqueville's Virus

Utopia and Dystopia in Western Social and Political Thought

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Produktbeschreibung

In the 1850s the social and political theorist Alexis de Tocqueville spoke of a virus of a new and unknown kind to explain the inexplicable failure of the French Revolution. This book uses Tocqueville 's idea of the virus to explore the fatal relationship between the concepts of utopia and dystopia in western social and political thought. It traces this relationship from Ancient Greece to post-modern America and attempts to untangle their apparently fatal connection through a new virology that might promote a less paranoid future for our global society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 162mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9780415339612
• ISBN-10: 0415339618
• Artikelnr.: 22516312

Autorenporträt

Mark Featherstone is Lecturer in Sociology at Keele University, UK. He has written widely on American mythology and social, political, and cultural theory.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Tocqueville's Virus Part I: Ancients and Moderns 1. Freedom
and Tyranny in Socrates and Plato 2. Friends, Enemies, and the Cosmology of
Power Politics 3. The Mechanisation of Society and the Pathologies of the
Self Part II: The Madness of Modernity 4. Modernity and Schizophrenia 5.
Autism, Paranoia, Critique Part III: Totalitarianism 6. Arendt's Theory of
Totalitarianism 7. Arendt's Paranoia Critique of Modernity. Conclusion:
America, Nation of the Edge. Bibliography