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In this vehement defence of democracy, Jacques Ranciere explodes
the complacency of Western politicians who pride themselves as the
defenders of political freedom. As America and its allies use their
military might in the misguided attempt to export a desiccated
version democracy, and reactionary strands in mainstream political
opinion abandon civil liberties, Ranciere argues that true
democracy-government by all-is held in profound contempt by the new
ruling class. In a compelling and timely analysis, Hatred of
Democracy rethinks the subversive power of the democratic ideal.
Peter Sloterdijk's essay on Friedrich Nietzsche and the benefits
and dangers of narcissistic jubilation. For Peter Sloterdijk,
Friedrich Nietzsche represents nothing short of a "catastrophe in
the history of language"-a new evangelist for a linguistics of
narcissistic jubilation. Nietzsche offered a philosophical
declaration of independence from humility, a meeting-point of
sobriety and megalomania that for Sloterdijk has come to define the
very project of philosophy. Yet for all the significance of this
language-event named Nietzsche, Nietzsche's contributions have too
often been elided and the contradictions at the root of his
philosophy too often edited out. As Sloterdijk observes, "Never has
an author so insisted on distinction and yet attracted such
vulgarity." Nietzsche Apostle, drawn from a speech Sloterdijk gave
in 2000 on the hundredth anniversary of Nietzsche's death, looks at
the ways in which Nietzsche has been branded over the years through
selective compilation, and at the ways in which Nietzsche turned
himself into a brand-a brand announced by his proclaimed "fifth
Gospel," Thus Spoke Zarathustra. For Sloterdijk, the focus should
not be on the figure of Zarathustra or on the "will to power" often
used as a kind of philosophical shorthand to sum up Nietzsche's
work, but on Zarathustra's act of "speaking" itself. Nietzsche
Apostle offers a brief history of self-praise and self-affirmation,
an examination of the evolution of boasting (both by God and by
man), and a very original approach to Nietzsche, philosophy's first
designer brand of individualism.
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Polemics (Paperback)
Alain Badiou; Contributions by Cecile Winter; Translated by Bruno Bosteels, Peter Hallward, Ray Brassier, …
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Polemics is a series of brilliant metapolitical reflections,
demolishing established opinion and dominant propaganda, and
reorienting our understanding of events from the Kosovo and Iraq
wars to the Paris Commune and the Cultural Revolution. At once
witty and profound, Badiou presents a series of radical
philosophical engagements with politics, and questions what
constitutes political truth.
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