Politics of the One Concepts of the One and the Many in Contemporary Thought

by Magun, Artemy

• ISBN13: 9781441112828
• ISBN10: 1441112820
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-11-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

This volume in the Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy series examines one of the most important topics in contemporary political theory: how to conceptualize the relationship between the one and the many. The essays discuss how to reconcile multiple ontologies without subsuming them to a totalitarian unity. While one school of thought (Deleuze, Negri) seeks to create a new ontology based on the many instead of the one, (which, politically, is close to anarchy), another proposes to understand the "one" as the "ultra-one" of the event (Badiou). In this groundbreaking work, leading thinkers explore these debates and offer alternative concepts. Building on Jean-Luc Nancy's essay who proposes an ontology of "singular plurality," contributors aim to synthesize the one and the many and suggest different ways of forming collectives, beyond the dominant representative political forms.An original and challenging work,Politics of the Oneaddresses new possible ways of bringing people together, integrating philosophy with theoretical and practical problems of politics.

Table of Contents

ContentsAbout the authors Introduction Part I The other One1 More than One Jean-Luc Nancy 2 The fragility of the One Marcia Sa Cavalcante Schuback 3 Unity and solitude Artemy Magun Part II Event of the One4 Genesis of the event in Deleuze: From the multiple tothe general Keti Chukhrov 5 Truth and infinity in Badiou and Heidegger Alexey Chernyakov 6 Suspension of the One: Badiou's objective phenomenology andpolitics of the subject Vitaly Kosykhin 7 Unity in crisis: Protometaphysical and postmetaphysicaldecisions Jussi Backman Part III The Singular Plural8 Vegetal democracy: The plant that is not One Michael Marder 9 Dividuum and condividuality Gerald Raunig Part IV Unity of the World10 The One: Composition or event? For a politics of thebecoming Boyan Manchev11 Elemental nature as the ultimate common ground of theworld community Susanna Lindberg viii ContentsPart V Politics of the One12 Negative imperialization Artemy Magun 13 ... et unus non solus, sed in pluribus: A Citizen as Eikon Oleg Kharkhordin 14 Drawing lots in politics: The one, the few, and the many Yves Sintomer 15 More than two: The One as singularity in ambiguity Gerald Raunig Index of names Index