| An Archaeology of the Political: Regimes of Power from the Seventeenth Century to the Present Contributor(s): Palti, Elías (Author) |
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ISBN: 0231179928 ISBN-13: 9780231179928 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $64.35 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Political - Philosophy | Movements - Critical Theory - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern |
| Dewey: 320.01 |
| LCCN: 2016034387 |
| Series: Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political History |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.10 lbs) 264 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the past few decades, much political-philosophical reflection has been dedicated to the realm of "the political." Many of the key figures in contemporary political theory--Jacques Ranci re, Alain Badiou, Reinhart Koselleck, Giorgio Agamben, Ernesto Laclau, and Slavoj Žižek, among others--have dedicated themselves to explaining power relations, but in many cases they take the concept of the political for granted, as if it were a given, an eternal essence. In An Archaeology of the Political, El as Jos Palti argues that the dimension of reality known as the political is not a natural, transhistorical entity. Instead, he claims that the horizon of the political arose in the context of a series of changes that affirmed the power of absolute monarchies in seventeenth-century Europe and was successively reconfigured from this period up to the present. Palti traces this series of redefinitions accompanying alterations in regimes of power, thus describing a genealogy of the concept of the political. Perhaps most important, An Archaeology of the Political brings to theoretical discussions a sound historical perspective, illuminating the complex influences of both theology and secularization on our understanding of the political in the contemporary world. |