Overview: Provides unique theoretical insights from philosophy, contemporary social theory, and historical illustrations towards understanding politics after 9/11.Brings together a career’s worth of thought froThis 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
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