Market and Thought - Meditations on the Political and Biopolitical (Paperback)

In this ambitious book, Brett Levinson explores the possibilities for a genuinely radical critique of globalized culture and politicsaat a time when intellectuals and nonintellectuals alike struggle to understand the configuration of the contemporary world. Levinson seeks to unsettle a naturalized and commonsensical assumption: that democracy and the economic market must be viewed as either united or at odds. Against both neoliberalists and cultural pluralists, he argues that the state is not yielding to the market, but that the universe now turns on a aduopolya between statist and global forms, one that generates not only economic and cultural sites but also ways of knowing, a postdemocratic episteme.Touching upon current issues such as terrorism, human rights, the attack on the World Trade Center, and the notion of the apeople, a delving into the idea of bio politics, and investigating the essential relation between language and political praxis, Levinson engages with the work of Giorgio Agamben, Jacques RanciA]re, Etienne Balibar, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, Michel Foucault, and others.Levinson offers no solutions, but his work will be an important voice for readers looking for conceptual tools to grasp what political and intellectual possibilities might exist in the postcommunist world and how this world has come to be shaped in our time.

General

Imprint:	Fordham University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2004
First published:	December 2004
Authors:	Brett Levinson
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-0-8232-2385-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory
LSN:	0-8232-2385-X
Barcode:	9780823223855

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