Politics as radical creation : Herbert Marcuse and Hannah Arendt on political performativity / Christopher Holman.
Material type: TextPublisher: Toronto : University Of Toronto Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (viii, 262 pages)Content type:- text
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- online resource
- 9781442667884
- 1442667885
- 321.8 23
- JC423 .H65 2013eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction: Marcuse, Arendt, and the Idea of Politics -- 1 Marcuse's Critique and Reformulation of the Philosophical Concept of Essence -- 2 The Dialectic of Instinctual Liberation: Essence and Nonrepressive Sublimation -- 3 The Problem of Politics -- 4 Hannah Arendt's Theory of Public Freedom -- 5 Marcuse Contra Arendt: Dialectics, Destiny, Distinction -- 6 Marcuse: Reconsidering the Political 148 Conclusion: From the New Left to Global Justice and from the Councils to Cochabamba.
Politics as Radical Creation examines the meaning of democratic practice through the critical social theory of the Frankfurt School.
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