| Towards an Improper Politics Contributor(s): Devenney, Mark (Author) |
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ISBN: 1474454038 ISBN-13: 9781474454032 Publisher: Edinburgh University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Democracy - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism |
| Dewey: 333.01 |
| LCCN: 2020288247 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.2" W x 9.2" (0.85 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book systematically introduces the idea of an improper politics. Introducing a conceptual vocabulary, it engages with the politics of the proper, propriety and property from a post-foundational perspective. Mark Devenney argues that this triad is central to understanding the maintenance of global inequality, both economic and political. He characterises democratic politics as improper, challenging the proper bounds of reason, accepted behaviours, and the policing of proper order. The conceptualisation of democracy as an improper practice of equality accords a dignity to forms of politics often deemed marginal. |