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An Archaeology of the Political: Regimes of Power from the Seventeenth Century to the Present

Palti, Elías

La Vergne: Columbia University Press 2017

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  • Título:
    An Archaeology of the Political: Regimes of Power from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
  • Autor: Palti, Elías
  • Assuntos: History ; Philosophy ; Political science ; Political science-Philosophy-History ; Power (Social sciences) ; Power (Social sciences)-Philosophy-History ; Sovereignty
  • Descrição: In the past few decades, much political-philosophical reflection has been dedicated to the realm of "the political." Many of the key figures in contemporary political theory-Jacques Rancière, Alain Badiou, Reinhart Koselleck, Giorgio Agamben, Ernesto Laclau, and Slavoj Žižek, among others-have dedicated themselves to explaining power relations, but in many cases they take the concept of the political for granted, as if it were a given, an eternal essence.InAn Archaeology of the Political, Elías José Palti argues that the dimension of reality known as the political is not a natural, transhistorical entity. Instead, he claims that the horizon of the political arose in the context of a series of changes that affirmed the power of absolute monarchies in seventeenth-century Europe and was successively reconfigured from this period up to the present. Palti traces this series of redefinitions accompanying alterations in regimes of power, thus describing a genealogy of the concept of the political. Perhaps most important,An Archaeology of the Politicalbrings to theoretical discussions a sound historical perspective, illuminating the complex influences of both theology and secularization on our understanding of the political in the contemporary world.
  • Títulos relacionados: Columbia studies in political thought/political history
  • Editor: La Vergne: Columbia University Press
  • Data de criação/publicação: 2017
  • Formato: 204
  • Idioma: Inglês

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