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Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon (Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory) by Ophir, Adi ;Stoler, Ann Laura ;Gourgouris, Stathis ;Anidjar, Gil ;Stoler, Ann Laura ;Ophir, Adi ;Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty ;Balibar, Étienne ;Bernstein, J. M. ;Copjec, Joan ;Lezra, Jacques ;Kalyvas, Andreas ;Cohen, Jean L. ;Bilgrami, Akeel ;Bernstein, J. M. (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Deciding what is and what is not political is a fraught, perhaps intractably opaque matter. Just who decides the question; on what grounds; to what ends–these seem like properly political questions themselves. Deciding what is political and what is not can serve to contain and restrain struggles, make existing power relations at once self-evident and opaque, and blur the possibility of reimagining them differently. This book seeks to revive our common political vocabulary—both everyday and academic—and to do so critically. Its entries take the form of essays in which each contributor presents her or his own original reflection on a concept posed in the traditional Socratic question format “What is X?” and asks what sort of work a rethinking of that concept can do for us now. The explicitness of a radical questioning of this kind gives authors both the freedom and the authority to engage, intervene in, critique, and transform the conceptual terrain they have inherited. Each entry, either implicitly or explicitly, attempts to re-open the question “What is political thinking?” Each is an effort to reinvent political writing. In this setting the political as such may be understood as a

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Author

Ophir, Adi ;Stoler, Ann Laura ;Gourgouris, Stathis ;Anidjar, Gil ;Stoler, Ann Laura ;Ophir, Adi ;Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty ;Balibar, Étienne ;Bernstein, J. M. ;Copjec, Joan ;Lezra, Jacques ;Kalyvas, Andreas ;Cohen, Jean L. ;Bilgrami, Akeel ;Bernstein, J. M. (editor)

Publisher

Fordham University Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780823277285

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Philosophy, Political Science