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Political Loneliness - Modern Liberal Subjects in Hiding (Paperback)
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Political Loneliness - Modern Liberal Subjects in Hiding (Paperback)
Series: Philosophical Projections
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Political Loneliness: Modern Liberal Subjects in Hiding examines
the loneliness that remains at work in modern life even as we find
ourselves increasingly interconnected. While much has been said
about this experience in the main currents of continental
philosophy, this book opens new paths within this discourse by
developing the problem of loneliness in a political register. The
central claim of this book is that neoliberal subjectivity has
rendered us lonely. Drawing especially on the work of Hannah
Arendt, the author suggests that the political structures we have
inherited from the liberal tradition-such as the anonymity of the
vote and the right to pursue one's private self-interest as far as
possible-have left us hidden from one another, unable to appear as
members of a common world. The author further argues that it is
precisely this experience of political loneliness that renders
citizens in liberal and allegedly open societies desperate to
belonging and willing, in turn, to surrender to delusional
fellowships like totalitarianism. By developing the problem of
loneliness in a political register, this book offers a framework
for interpreting the rise of totalitarianism at the beginning of
the twentieth century, no less than the recent ascendance of
right-wing populism in Western liberal democracies today. It thus
makes an important contribution to debates in current continental
philosophy, liberal political theory, and critical theory regarding
issues of alienation, political life, and community in the present
age.
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