Negativity and Politics: Dionysus and Dialectics from Kant to Poststructuralism

ISBN-13: 9780415031776 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 282 str.

Diana Coole

Opis

Although frequently invoked by philosophers and political theorists, the theory of negativity has received arguably little sustained attention. This text provides a full length study of this crucial problematic within philosophy and political theory. Diana Coole clearly shows how the problem of negativity lies at the heart of philosophical and political debate. Firstly, she explores the meaning of negativity as it appears in modern and postmodern thinking. Secondly, she sets out the significance of negativity for politics and our understanding of what constitutes the political.

Spis treści

Introduction: negativity and politics 1 Negativity and noumena: critical reason at the limit 2 Hegel and his critics: dialectics and difference 3 Nietzsche: negativity as will to power 4 Negativity as invisibility: Merleau-Ponty's dialectical adventures 4 Negativity as invisibility: Merleau-Ponty's dialectical adventures 5 Subject-object relations again: identity, non-identity and negative dialectics 6 Subjectivity and the semiotic: gendering negativity, Conclusion: politics and negativity

O autorze

Diana Coole is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory and Head of Department at the Department of Politics, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London.