Politics as Radical Creation

Author: Christopher Holman  

Publisher: University of Toronto Press‎

Publication year: 2013

E-ISBN: 9781442667884

Subject: D082 Democracy, human rights, civil rights

Language: ENG

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“This is a well-written, illuminating, and analytically-argued read of two of the twentieth century’s most penetrating thinkers that presents possibilities for a new type of political action—politics as performance.”

Chapter

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

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