ENGLISH

Retreating the Political

By Jean-Luc Nancy , Philipe Lacoue-Labarthe , Simon Sparks

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1997
ISBN
0415151635, 9780415151634
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
18 MB (19270763 bytes)
Series
Warwick Studies in European Philosophy
Edition
1
Pages
224\222
DPI
600
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2015-06-04 14:34:25
Political Philosophy Politics Social Sciences Aest

Description

This collection of essays presents, for the first time in English, some of the key essays on the political by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy. Including several unpublished essays, Retreating the Political offers some highly original perspectives on the relationship between philosophy and the political. Through contemporary readings of the political in Freud, Heidegger and Marx, the authors ask if we can talk of an a priori link between the philosophical and the political; they investigate the significance of the 'figure' - the human being as political subject - in the history of metaphysics; and they inquire how we can 're-treat' the political today in the face of those who argue that philosophy is at an 'end'.

Similar books