Politics as Radical Creation : : Herbert Marcuse and Hannah Arendt on Political Performativity / / Christopher Holman.
Politics as Radical Creation examines the meaning of democratic practice through the critical social theory of the Frankfurt School. It provides an understanding of democratic politics as a potentially performative good-in-itself, undertaken not just to the extent that it seeks to achieve a certain...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Marcuse, Arendt, and the Idea of Politics
- 1. Marcuse's Critique and Reformulation of the Philosophical Concept of Essence
- 2. The Dialectic of Instinctual Liberation: Essence and Nonrepressive Sublimation
- 3. The Problem of Politics
- 4. Hannah Arendt's Theory of Public Freedom
- 5. Marcuse Contra Arendt: Dialectics, Destiny, Distinction
- 6. Marcuse: Reconsidering the Political
- Conclusion: From the New Left to Global Justice and from the Councils to Cochabamba
- Notes
- References
- Index