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The Refusal of Politics / Laurent Dubreuil, Cory Browning.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Incitements : INCIPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (128 p.) : 1 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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  • 9781474416740
  • 9781474416764
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  • 320.01 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Summary: Denounces contemporary politics through an engagement with political theory, the arts and what it is to live wellLaurent Dubreuil provocatively proposes an extremist rethinking of the limits of politics - toward a break from politics, the political and policies. Rather than yet another re-articulation, he calls for a refusal of politics, suggesting a form of apolitics that would make our lives more liveable.The first chapter situates the refusal of politics in relation to different contemporary theoretical attempts to renew politics, and makes the case for a greater rupture. The second moment takes up what is liveable in life by way of apolitical experience, in contrast to appropriations of the collective, including a discussion of the arts. Finally, Dubreuil draws up an incomplete inventory of means: forms of existence - often frail and fleeting - that make an exit toward atopia.Key FeaturesOpens a dialogue at the crossroads of French leftism (from the Situationists to Jacques Rancière), Italian contemporary philosophy (from operaismo to authors such as Agamben or Esposito) and English-speaking academic activism (with figures such as Herbert Marcuse, Judith Butler and Slavoj Žižek)Includes a section on the connection between literature, the arts and the political, as perceived in Surrealism, Situationism and Adorno and MarcuseExplores how extremist practices may encounter the very limits of politicsGives a performative account of what apolitical experiences and instants could mean
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Denounces contemporary politics through an engagement with political theory, the arts and what it is to live wellLaurent Dubreuil provocatively proposes an extremist rethinking of the limits of politics - toward a break from politics, the political and policies. Rather than yet another re-articulation, he calls for a refusal of politics, suggesting a form of apolitics that would make our lives more liveable.The first chapter situates the refusal of politics in relation to different contemporary theoretical attempts to renew politics, and makes the case for a greater rupture. The second moment takes up what is liveable in life by way of apolitical experience, in contrast to appropriations of the collective, including a discussion of the arts. Finally, Dubreuil draws up an incomplete inventory of means: forms of existence - often frail and fleeting - that make an exit toward atopia.Key FeaturesOpens a dialogue at the crossroads of French leftism (from the Situationists to Jacques Rancière), Italian contemporary philosophy (from operaismo to authors such as Agamben or Esposito) and English-speaking academic activism (with figures such as Herbert Marcuse, Judith Butler and Slavoj Žižek)Includes a section on the connection between literature, the arts and the political, as perceived in Surrealism, Situationism and Adorno and MarcuseExplores how extremist practices may encounter the very limits of politicsGives a performative account of what apolitical experiences and instants could mean

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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