Claude Lefort

Writing

The Political Test
Übersetzer: Curtis, David Ames

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Produktbeschreibung

"Many people have become painfully aware of the detachment of a 'worldless textualism' from anything resembling political reality, a reality to be distinguished from grandiose political pronouncements. Lefort's "Writing" offers a philosophical reflection deeply embeded within the political."--Bernard Flynn, New School for Social Research

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822324843
• ISBN-10: 0822324849
• Artikelnr.: 42992795

Autorenporträt

Claude Lefort

Inhaltsangabe

Translator's Foreword vii
Author's Preface xxxix
The Interposed Body: George Orwell's Ninetenn Eighty-Four 1
Humanism and Anti-Humanism: Homage to Salman Rushdie 20
Tocqueville: Democracy and the Art of Writing 35
An Exploration of the Flesh of the Social: Note on Democracy in America 35
A Thinkng of Contraries: Note on The Old Regime and the Revolution 49
Sade: The Boudoir and the City 67
Guizot: Polemical LIberalism 85
Machiavelli and the Verita Effetuale 109
The Idea of Humanity and the Project of Universal Peace 142
The Revolution as New Religion 159
Three Notes on Leo Strauss 172
Dialogue with Pierre Clastres 207
Philospher? 236
Reflections on the Present 252
Decomposition of Totalitarianism 252
Rebirth of Democracy 256
The Test of Truth 273
Index 281