The Unpolitical - 9780823230044

Description: The Unpolitical Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). On the Radical Critique of Political Reason Author(s): Massimo Cacciari, Alessandro Carrera, Massimo Verdicchio Format: Paperback Publisher: Fordham University Press, United States Imprint: Fordham University Press ISBN-13: 9780823230044, 978-0823230044 Synopsis Massimo Cacciari is one of the leading public intellectuals in today's Italy, both as an outstanding philosopher and political thinker and as now three times (and currently) the mayor of Venice. This collection of essays on political topics provides the best introduction in English to his thought to date. The political focus does not, however, prevent these essays from being an introduction to the full range of Cacciari's thought. The present collection includes chapters on Hofmannstahl, Lukacs, Benjamin, Nietzsche, Weber, Derrida, Schmitt, Canetti, and Aeschylus. Written between 1978 and 2006, these essays engagingly address the most hidden tradition in European political thought: the Unpolitical. Far from being a refusal of politics, the Unpolitical represents a merciless critique of political reason and a way out of the now impracticable consolations of utopia and harmonious community. Drawing freely from philosophy and literature, The Unpolitical represents a powerful contribution to contemporary political theory. A lucid and engaging Introduction by Alessandro Carrera sets these essays in the context of Cacciari's work generally and in the broadest context of its historical and geographical backdrop.

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