Infrapolitics - A Handbook (Hardcover)

The personal is not political, even if politics marks it and, in many cases, determines it. Infrapolitics seeks to understand conditions of existence that are not reducible to political life and that exceed any definition of world bound to political determinations. It seeks to mobilize an exteriority without which politics could only be business or administration, that is, oppression. It demands a change in seeing and an everyday practice that subtracts from political totalization in the name of a new production of desire, of a new emancipation, and of a conception of experience that can breach the general captivation of life. In this book, Alberto Moreiras describes a form of thought aiming to provide content for a form of life and to offer a new theoretical practice for concrete existence. The book provides a genealogy of the notion of infrapolitics and places it within contemporary philosophical reflection, examining its deployment in the wake of postphenomenology and deconstruction, Lacanian analysis, the principle of anarchy, and an egalitarian symbolization of social life. In doing so, Moreiras elaborates Infrapolitics as both a general critique of the political apparatus and as an imperative horizon for existential self-understanding.

General

Imprint:	Fordham University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2021
Authors:	Alberto Moreiras
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-0-8232-9835-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Imperialism Books > Philosophy > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8232-9835-3
Barcode:	9780823298358

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