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Beyond Potentialities?Politics between the Possible and the Impossible

 - Beyond Potentialities?
This volume assembles articles that investigate the question of the possible and the impossible in politics. Discussing thinkers such as Agamben, Badiou, Foucault, and Debord, Beyond Potentialities? explores different perspectives and highlight the relevance of this issue for contemporary political thought.
Nearly the whole history of political thought is spanned between two poles: one of founding, establishing, and justifying a stable and just order on one side and of justified transformation and necessary break with that same order on the other side. Between institution and emancipation, reform and revolution, the question of possibility is always arising for politics. Are there possibilities to change the order of society? Are there possibilities for a different justice? Where to find them and how to define them? Are they already present in the situation, or do they have to be actively created? Or does one have to rethink collective emancipation in a way that it does not rely upon given possibilities? The question of possibility is raised in philosophy itself in different terms: as a question of potentiality and potentials but also as a question of the impossibilities of changing political order. In recent political discussions this question is more present than ever and is newly posed in fundamental ways by thinkers such as Agamben, Badiou, and Deleuze, or Lacan and Žižek. The present volume assembles articles that investigate this question and the new guise it took from different perspectives and highlight its relevance for contemporary political thought.
Edited by Frank Ruda, Jan Völker, Mark Potocnik.
Texts by Mark Potocnik, Frank Ruda, Alain Badiou, Lorenzo Chiesa, Jelica Šumic, Bruno Bosteels, Jan Völker, Felix Ensslin, Friedrich Balke, Jason E. Smith, Peter Hallward.
 
published in March 2011
English edition
13,5 x 21 cm (softcover)
216 pages
 
29.95
 
ISBN : 978-3-03734-152-0
EAN : 9783037341520
 
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