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Scatter 1 - The Politics of Politics in Foucault, Heidegger, and Derrida (Paperback)
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Scatter 1 - The Politics of Politics in Foucault, Heidegger, and Derrida (Paperback)
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What if political rhetoric is unavoidable, an irreducible part of
politics itself? In contrast to the familiar denunciations of
political horse-trading, grandstanding, and corporate manipulation
from those lamenting the crisis in liberal democracy, this book
argues that the "politics of politics," usually associated with
rhetoric and sophistry, is, like it or not, part of politics from
the start. Denunciations of the sorry state of current politics
draw on a dogmatism and moralism that share an essentially
metaphysical and Platonic ground. Failure to deconstruct that
ground generates a philosophically and politically debilitating
selfrighteousness that this book attempts to understand and
undermine. After a detailed analysis of Foucault's influential late
concept of parrhesia, which is shown to be both philosophically and
politically insufficient, close readings of Heidegger, Kierkegaard,
and Derrida trace complex relations between sophistry, rhetoric,
and philosophy; truth and untruth; decision; madness and stupidity
in an exploration of the possibility of developing an affirmative
thinking of politics that is not mortgaged to the metaphysics of
presence. It is suggested that Heidegger's complex accounts of
truth and decision must indeed be read in close conjunction with
his notorious Nazi commitments but nevertheless contain essential
insights that many strident responses to those commitments ignore
or repress. Those insights are here developed-via an ambitious
account of Derrida's often misunderstood interruption of
teleology-into a deconstructive retrieval of the concept of
dignity. This lucid and often witty account of a crucial set of
developments in twentieth-century thought prepares the way for a
more general re-reading of the possibilities of political
philosophy that will be undertaken in Volume 2 of this work, under
the sign of an essential scatter that defines the political as
such.
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