Infrapolitics: A Handbook - Softcover

Moreiras, Alberto

 
9780823298365: Infrapolitics: A Handbook
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0823298361 ISBN 13: 9780823298365
Verlag: Fordham University Press, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

The personal is not political, even if politics marks it and, in many cases, determines it. Infrapolitics seeks to understand conditions of existence that are not reducible to political life and that exceed any definition of world bound to political determinations. It seeks to mobilize an exteriority without which politics could only be business or administration, that is, oppression. It demands a change in seeing and an everyday practice that subtracts from political totalization in the name of a new production of desire, of a new emancipation, and of a conception of experience that can breach the general captivation of life.
In this book, Alberto Moreiras describes a form of thought aiming to provide content for a form of life and to offer a new theoretical practice for concrete existence. The book provides a genealogy of the notion of infrapolitics and places it within contemporary philosophical reflection, examining its deployment in the wake of postphenomenology and deconstruction, Lacanian analysis, the principle of anarchy, and an egalitarian symbolization of social life. In doing so, Moreiras elaborates Infrapolitics as both a general critique of the political apparatus and as an imperative horizon for existential self-understanding.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Alberto Moreiras is Professor of Hispanic Studies at Texas A&M University. He is the author of The Exhaustion of Difference: The Politics of Latin American Cultural Studies (Duke University Press, 2001), Against Abstraction: Notes from an Ex–Latin Americanist (University of Texas Press, 2020), Sosiego siniestro (Guillermo Escolar, 2020), and Tercer espacio y otros relatos (SPLASH, 2021).

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“Provocative and gripping. You won't look at life and politics—and the wedge in between them—in the same way again.”—Cristina Rivera Garza, author of Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country

“Moreiras’s Infrapolitics gives flesh and blood to a concept that subverts liberal individualism, on the one hand, and collective communitarianism—reactionary, progressivist, or communist—on the other. Infrapolitics challenges the very notion of the political, while appreciating concrete and ontic uses the ancient and modern concept once envisioned but failed to realize.”—Hent de Vries, New York University

“One of the most important books concerning contemporary thought written this century.”—Brett Levinson, SUNY Binghamton

The personal is not political, even if politics marks it and, in many cases, determines it. Infrapolitics seeks to understand conditions of existence that are not reducible to political life and that exceed any definition of world bound to political determinations. It seeks to mobilize an exteriority without which politics could only be business or administration, that is, oppression. It demands a change in seeing and an everyday practice that subtracts from political totalization in the name of a new production of desire, of a new emancipation, and of a conception of experience that can breach the general captivation of life.

In this book, Alberto Moreiras describes a form of thought aiming to provide content for a form of life and to offer a new theoretical practice for concrete existence. The book provides a genealogy of the notion of infrapolitics and places it within contemporary philosophical reflection, examining its deployment in the wake of postphenomenology and deconstruction, Lacanian analysis, the principle of anarchy, and an egalitarian symbolization of social life. In doing so, Moreiras elaborates Infrapolitics as both a general critique of the political apparatus and as an imperative horizon for existential self-understanding.

Alberto Moreiras is Professor of Hispanic Studies at Texas A&M University.

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Verlag
Fordham University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0823298361
ISBN 13 
9780823298365
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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