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Antagonistics addresses central political and theoretical
questions: how should we conceive the relations between
neo-imperial warfare and neoliberalism, or American hegemony and
capitalist globalization? Reflections on the major issues of the
new international order are set within a larger framework, tracing
the intertwined evolution of the modern state system and the
capitalist mode of production, from the Treaty of Westphalia to the
Occupation of Iraq. Gopal Balakrishnan interrogates three key
political perspectives-including Tocqueville's liberalism,
Althusser's Marxism and Schmitt on the radical right-for their
insights on state power and civil society, democracy, and class.
Antagonistics combines intellectual history, political philosophy,
and historical sociology to produce a highly distinctive portrait
of an age of capital and war.
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Debating Empire (Paperback)
Gopal Balakrishnan; Contributions by Alex Callinicos, Charles Tilly, Ellen Meiksins Wood, Giovanni Arrighi, …
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R523
R455
Discovery Miles 4 550
Save R68 (13%)
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Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's book Empire has been hailed as a
latter day Communist Manifesto. Its ability to develop a
theoretical framework relevant to the current period of global
neo-liberalism and international capitalism captured the
imagination of the growing anti-capitalist movement and has been
claimed as a turning point for the left. As much as it has seduced
and delighted some, however, it has enraged and frustrated others.
In this collection, a series of some of the most acute
international theorists and commentators of our times subject the
book to trenchant and probing analysis from political, economic and
philosophical perspectives, and Hardt and Negri respond to their
questions and criticisms.
In nearly two decades since Samuel P. Huntington proposed his
influential and troubling 'clash of civilizations' thesis,
nationalism has only continued to puzzle and frustrate
commentators, policy analysts and political theorists. No consensus
exists concerning its identity, genesis or future. Are we reverting
to the petty nationalisms of the nineteenth century or evolving
into a globalized, supranational world? Has the nation-state
outlived its usefulness and exhausted its progressive and
emancipatory role? Opening with powerful statements by Lord Acton
and Otto Bauer - the classic liberal and socialist positions,
respectively - Mapping the Nation presents a wealth of thought on
this issue: the debate between Ernest Gellner and Miroslav Hroch;
Gopal Balakrishnan's critique of Benedict Anderson's seminal
Imagined Communities; Partha Chatterjee on the limitations of the
Enlightenment approach to nationhood; and contributions from
Michael Mann, Eric Hobsbawm, Tom Nairn, and Jurgen Habermas.
The writings of Carl Schmitt form what is arguably the most
disconcerting, original, and yet still unfamiliar body of
twentieth-century political thought. In the English-speaking world,
he is terra incognita, a name associated with Nazism, the author of
a largely untranslated oeuvre forming no recognizable system,
coming to us from a disturbing place and time in the form of
fragments. The Enemy is a comprehensive reconstruction and analysis
of all of Schmitt's major works-his books, articles and pamphlets
from 1919 to 1950-presented in an arresting narrative form. The
revelation of his work is that, unlike mainstream Nazi ideology,
Schmitt makes a strong philosophical claim for the necessity of
confrontational politics within a democratic system; a claim that
has resonance in today's hegemony of consensual politics.
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Mapping the Nation (Hardcover)
Gopal Balakrishnan; Introduction by Benedict Anderson; Contributions by Lord Acton, Otto Bauer, John Breuilly, …
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R2,118
Discovery Miles 21 180
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In nearly two decades since Samuel P. Huntington proposed his
influential and troubling 'clash of civilizations' thesis,
nationalism has only continued to puzzle and frustrate
commentators, policy analysts and political theorists. No consensus
exists concerning its identity, genesis or future. Are we reverting
to the petty nationalisms of the nineteenth century or evolving
into a globalized, supranational world? Has the nation-state
outlived its usefulness and exhausted its progressive and
emancipatory role? Opening with powerful statements by Lord Acton
and Otto Bauer - the classic liberal and socialist positions,
respectively - Mapping the Nation presents a wealth of thought on
this issue: the debate between Ernest Gellner and Miroslav Hroch;
Gopal Balakrishnan's critique of Benedict Anderson's seminal
Imagined Communities; Partha Chatterjee on the limitations of the
Enlightenment approach to nationhood; and contributions from
Michael Mann, Eric Hobsbawm, Tom Nairn, and Jurgen Habermas.
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