Author: Chantal Mouffe
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: thinkers, radical, political, return
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2006-01-17
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1844670570
ISBN-13: 9781844670574
An original and powerful statement which enables us to close the widening gap between liberal democracy and the events of a disordered world. In this work, Mouffe argues that liberal democracy misunderstands the problems of ethnic, religious and nationalist conflicts because of its inadequate conception of politics. He suggests that the democratic revolution may be jeopardized by a lack of understanding of citizenship, community and pluralism. Mouffe examines the work of Schmidt and Rawls and explores feminist theory, in an attempt to place the project of radical and plural democracy on a mor
Author: Charles Taylor
Publisher: Goodread Biography
Keywords: biographies, goodread, tories, radical
Number of Pages: 231
Published: 1984-01-01
List price: $4.95
ISBN-10: 0887801315
ISBN-13: 9780887801310
Red Toryism is a peculiarly Canadian phonomenon: a heritage of radical populism that stands at the very foundation of our national life.Charles Taylor profiles seven prominent thinkers in the radical tory tradition, among them Donald Creighton, biographer of John A. Macdonald and author of the most influential interpretation of Canadian history in the 20th century; George Grant, philosopher and author of the classic analysis of Canadian nationhood, Lament for a Nation; and Eugene Forsey, one of the founders of the socialist CCF in the 1930s, who identifies himself a Macdonald Conservative.Radi
Author: Paul Virilio
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: thinkers, radical, bomb, information
Number of Pages: 145
Published: 2006-01-17
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1844670597
ISBN-13: 9781844670598
Virilio’s exploration of the relationship between technology, speed, war and information technology weaves together a breathtaking worldview of horror, exhilaration and hope. “Civilization or the militarization of science?” With this typically hyperbolic and provocative question as a starting point, Paul Virilio explores the dominion of techno-science, cyberwar and the new information technologies over our lives . . . and deaths. After the era of the atomic bomb, Virilio posits an era of genetic and information bombs which replace the apocalyptic bang of nuclear death with
Author: Jean Baudrillard
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: thinkers, radical, objects, system
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2006-01-17
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1844670538
ISBN-13: 9781844670536
A cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society, The System of Objects is a tour de force – a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all the live ideas of the day. Pressing Freudian and Saussurean categories into the service of a basically Marxist perspective, The System of Objects offers a cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society. Baudrillard classifies the everyday objects of the “new technical order” as functional, nonfunctional and metafunctional. He contrasts “modern” and “traditional”
Author: Jacques Derrida
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: thinkers, radical, friendship, politics
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2006-01-17
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1844670546
ISBN-13: 9781844670543
The most influential of contemporary philosophers explores the idea of friendship and its political consequences. “O, my friends, there is no friend.” The most influential of contemporary philosophers explores the idea of friendship and its political consequences, past and future. Until relatively recently, Jacques Derrida was seen by many as nothing more than the high priest of Deconstruction, by turns stimulating and fascinating, yet always somewhat disengaged from the central political questions of our time. Or so it seemed. Derrida’s “political turn,” marked especiall
Author: Carlos Santiago Nino
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: trial, evil, radical
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 1996-09-25
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0300067496
ISBN-13: 9780300067491
In this provocative book, Carlos Santiago Nino offers a first-hand analysis of the Argentine experience of the 1980s, when a brutal military dictatorship gave way to a democratic government. Nino, who played a key role in the transition and in the shaping of human rights policies in Argentina, examines the impact of war crimes trials there and considers their potential to strengthen a new democratic government.
Author: Jacques Rancière
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: thinkers, radical, politics, shores
Number of Pages: 107
Published: 2007-01-17
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1844675777
ISBN-13: 9781844675777
This major French thinker gives politics back its original and necessary meaning: the organization of dissent. It is frequently said that we are living through the end of politics, the end of social upheavals, the end of utopian folly. Consensual realism is the order of the day. But political realists, remarks Jacques Ranciere, are always several steps behind reality, and the only thing which may come to an end with their dominance is democracy. ’We could’, he suggests, ’merely smile at the duplicity of the conclusion/suppression of politics which is simultaneously a
