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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.
Political Loneliness: Modern Liberal Subjects in Hiding examines
the political significance of the experience of loneliness. The
book conceives of loneliness as a symptom of the political
alienation of modern life. Its central claim is that neoliberal
subjectivity has rendered us lonely. That is, that the political
structures we have inherited from the liberal tradition-such as the
anonymity of the vote, or the emphasis on representation rather
than deliberation-have left us hidden from one another, unable to
appear as members of a common world. In view of this, the author
suggests that it is precisely this experience of loneliness that
makes modern subjects vulnerable to totalitarian domination and the
delusional fellowship that drives it. This work thus provides a
frame for interpreting such phenomena as the rise of
totalitarianism at the beginning of the twentieth century. The book
makes an important contribution to the fields of liberal political
theory, current continental philosophy, and critical theory,
centering on debates within these fields that are oriented by
issues in politics, ethics, and community.
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