Antagonistics Pa

by Balakrishnan,Gopal

• ISBN13: 9781844672691
• ISBN10: 1844672697
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-05-05
• Publisher: VERSO

Summary

A striking intervention from one of the most original young radical thinkers of today. Antagonisticsaddresses core political and theoretical questions: How should we conceive the relations between neo-imperial warfare and neoliberalism, American hegemony and capitalist globalization? Reflections on the central issues of the post-9/11 order are set within a larger framework, tracing the intertwined evolution of the modern state system and the capitalist mode of production, from the Treaty of Westphalia to the Occupation of Iraq. Balakrishnan interrogates three key political perspectives--liberalism (Tocqueville), the radical right (Schmitt), and the Marxist left (Althusser)--for their insights on state power and civil society, democracy, and class.Antagonisticscombines intellectual history, political philosophy, and historical sociology to produce a highly distinctive portrait of an age of capital and war.

Author Biography

Gopal Balakrishnan is the author of The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt, and editor of Debating Empire and (with Benedict Anderson) Mapping the Nation. A member of the New Left Review editorial board, he is a professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. vii
Concepts of the Geopolitical
Arms and Accumulation	p. 3
Virgilian Visions	p. 21
Algorithms of War	p. 33
Battleground of the Spectacle	p. 75
The Role of Force in History	p. 111
Reflections on Politics
The National Imagination	p. 157
The Oracle of Post-Democracy	p. 177
Two on the Marble Cliffs	p. 195
Overcoming Emancipation	p. 205
The Age of Identity	p. 225
The Politics of Piety	p. 245
From Florence to Moscow	p. 253
Envoi
Machiavelli and the Reawakening of History	p. 265
Index	p. 281
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