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Between Politics and Antipolitics

Thinking About Politics After 9/11

Palgrave Macmillan

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  • Provides unique theoretical insights from philosophy, contemporary social theory, and historical illustrations towards understanding politics after 9/11
  • Brings together a career’s worth of thought from an influential thinker, with a strong emphasis on the contemporary political climate and the future of democracy
  • Offers a breadth of perspective through interdisciplinary analyses of what the author calls “politics” and “antipolitics”

Part of the book series: Political Philosophy and Public Purpose (POPHPUPU)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Introduction

    • Dick Howard
    Pages 1-10
  3. Engaging with the Left

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
    2. Toward a Democratic Manifesto

      • Dick Howard
      Pages 69-78
  4. Engaging with Predecessors

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
    2. Citizen Habermas

      • Dick Howard
      Pages 123-144
  5. Engaging with Philosophy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163
    2. The Necessity of Politics

      • Dick Howard
      Pages 203-219
  6. Engaging with Contemporary Ideology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-221

About this book

This book traces a dialectic relationship between “politics” and “antipolitics,” the first, as used here, being akin to philosophy as an activity of open inquiry, plural democracy, and truth-finding, and the latter in the realm of ideology, technocracy, and presupposed certainties. It returns back to the emergence of a New Left movement in the 1960s in order to follow the history of this relationship since then. It addresses contemporary debates by looking to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Bloc, and asking in the wake of that: what is a revolution? Finally, it draws on these analyses to examine the age of terrorism after the tragedy of September 11, 2001, and resounds with a call to pursue democracy and real politics in the face of new forms of antipolitics.

Authors and Affiliations

  • State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, USA

    Dick Howard

About the author

Dick Howard is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Stony Brook University, USA, and the author of 14 books in English and French. He has commented regularly on politics in journals and newspapers French, English, and German for the past 50 years, from the civil rights movement in the US through May ’68 in France, to the Fall of the Berlin Wall, and beyond. From 2011-2012, he also provided 15 months of weekly commentary on US elections for Radio Canada.

Bibliographic Information

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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