This book traces a dialectic relationship between politics and antipolitics, the first, as used here, being akin to philosophy as an activity of open inquiry, plural democracy, and truth-finding, and the latter in the realm of ideology, technocracy, and presupposed certainties. It returns back to the emergence of a New Left movement in the 1960s in order to follow the history of this relationship since then. It addresses contemporary debates by looking to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Bloc, and asking in the wake of that: what is a revolution? Finally, it draws on these analyses to examine the age of terrorism after the tragedy of September 11, 2001, and resounds with a call to pursue democracy and real politics in the face of new forms of antipolitics.
Series Editor Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. ?Engaging with the Left
1. ? Make these Petrified Relations Dance& ?
2. ? The New Left and the Search for the Political
3. ? The Anti-Totalitarian Left between Morality and Politics ?
4. ? Toward a Democratic Manifesto
II. ?Engaging with Predecessors
5. Philosophy by Other Means. The Philosophical Origins of Sociology
6. ? Andr? Gorz and the Philosophical Foundation of the Political
7. Citizen Habermas ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
8. ? Rereading Arendt After the Fall of the Wall ?
III. ?Engaging with Philosophy ? ? ? ?
<9. ? The Actuality of the History of Political Thought ?
10. ? The Paradoxical Political Success of an Antipolitical Philosophy
11. ? Claude Lefort, A Political Biography
12. ? The Nlƒ%
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