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Political Concepts - A Critical Lexicon (Hardcover)
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Political Concepts - A Critical Lexicon (Hardcover)
Series: Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
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Deciding what is and what is not political is a fraught, perhaps
intractably opaque matter. Just who decides the question; on what
grounds; to what ends-these seem like properly political questions
themselves. Deciding what is political and what is not can serve to
contain and restrain struggles, make existing power relations at
once self-evident and opaque, and blur the possibility of
reimagining them differently. Political Concepts seeks to revive
our common political vocabulary-both everyday and academic-and to
do so critically. Its entries take the form of essays in which each
contributor presents her or his own original reflection on a
concept posed in the traditional Socratic question format "What is
X?" and asks what sort of work a rethinking of that concept can do
for us now. The explicitness of a radical questioning of this kind
gives authors both the freedom and the authority to engage,
intervene in, critique, and transform the conceptual terrain they
have inherited. Each entry, either implicitly or explicitly,
attempts to re-open the question "What is political thinking?" Each
is an effort to reinvent political writing. In this setting the
political as such may be understood as a property, a field of
interest, a dimension of human existence, a set of practices, or a
kind of event. Political Concepts does not stand upon a decided
concept of the political but returns in practice and in concern to
the question "What is the political?" by submitting the question to
a field of plural contention. The concepts collected in Political
Concepts are "Arche" (Stathis Gourgouris), "Blood" (Gil Anidjar),
"Colony" (Ann Laura Stoler), "Concept" (Adi Ophir), "Constituent
Power" (Andreas Kalyvas), "Development" (Gayatri Spivak),
"Exploitation" (Etienne Balibar), "Federation" (Jean Cohen),
"Identity" (Akeel Bilgrami), "Rule of Law" (J. M. Bernstein),
"Sexual Difference" (Joan Copjec), and "Translation" (Jacques
Lezra)
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