The End of Politics?

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Introduction: Antipolitics — Closing and Colonizing the Public Sphere

   • Andreas Schedler

   Pages 1-20

3. Antipolitical Motifs in Western Political Discourse

   • Barry Hindess

   Pages 21-39

4. Logos against Leviathan: The Hobbesian Origins of Modern Antipolitics

   • Gershon Weiler

   Pages 40-56

5. Our Own Invisible Hand: Antipolitics as an American Given

   • Erwin A. Jaffe

   Pages 57-90

6. The Public Void: Antipolitics in the Former Soviet Union

   • Charles H. Fairbanks Jr

   Pages 91-114

7. Deliberation and its Discontents: H. Ross Perot’s Antipolitical Populism

   • Gwen Brown

   Pages 115-148

8. Markets versus Politics: On Globalization, Language and Legitimacy

   • Louis Pauly

   Pages 149-167

9. Politics in Retreat: Redrawing Our Political Maps

   • Norbert Lechner

   Pages 168-184

10. Back Matter

    Pages 185-191

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Since communism collapsed we have witnessed the emergence of numerous political actors - neopopulists, neoliberals, fundamentalists, nationalists, and others - who share one ideological leitmotif: their deep contempt for modern democratic politics. The book asks an old question: What is politics? And it adds a new one to the agenda of social sciences: What is antipolitics? Some authors trace antipolitical traditions in Western political thought, while others analyze the rhetoric of contemporary antipolitical actors in the US, the former Soviet Union, and South America. The book contains contributions from Charles H. Fairbanks Jr, Barry Hindess, Erwin A. Jaffe, Norbert Lechner, Jose Nun, Louis Pauly, Andreas Schedler, and Gershon Weiler.

• communism
• Deliberation
• globalization
• Leviathan
• Political Thought
• politics
• social science

• Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria

  Andreas Schedler

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