
The Refusal of Politics
Laurent Dubreuil(Author)
Edinburgh University Press
Published on 8. September 2016
Book
Hardback
128 pages
978-1-4744-1674-0 (ISBN)
Description
Denounces contemporary politics through an engagement with political theory, the arts and what it is to live well
Dubreuil provocatively proposes an extremist rethinking of the limits of politics - toward a break from politics, the political and policies. He calls for a refusal of politics, suggesting a form of apolitics that would make our lives more liveable.
The first chapter situates the refusal of politics in relation to different contemporary theoretical attempts to renew politics, and makes the case for a greater rupture. The second moment takes up what is liveable in life by way of apolitical experience, in contrast to appropriations of the collective, including a discussion of the arts. Finally, Laurent Dubreuil draws up an incomplete inventory of means, forms of existence - often frail and fleeting - that make an exit toward atopia.
Dubreuil provocatively proposes an extremist rethinking of the limits of politics - toward a break from politics, the political and policies. He calls for a refusal of politics, suggesting a form of apolitics that would make our lives more liveable.
The first chapter situates the refusal of politics in relation to different contemporary theoretical attempts to renew politics, and makes the case for a greater rupture. The second moment takes up what is liveable in life by way of apolitical experience, in contrast to appropriations of the collective, including a discussion of the arts. Finally, Laurent Dubreuil draws up an incomplete inventory of means, forms of existence - often frail and fleeting - that make an exit toward atopia.
Reviews / Votes
Laurent Dubreuil's book is situated in an extreme polarity to other contemporary reflections on politics. Refusing every figure of the political, Dubreuil radically moves beyond all of the perspectives in the field today. Certainly his idea of absolute apoliticity remains highly problematic in a world lacking politics, such as our own. But this is precisely what makes his book of extreme interest. -- Roberto Esposito, University of NaplesMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
1 black and white illustration
Dimensions
Height: 190 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
249 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-1674-0 (9781474416740)
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Persons
Laurent Dubreuil is Professor of Comparative Literature, Romance Studies and Cognitive Science at Cornell University. He is the author of six books of philosophy and literary theory, including The Intellective Space (2015) and Empire of Language (2013). Since 2011, he has served as the Editor of diacritics. Cory Browning is Assistant Professor of French at the University of Oregon. He completed his PhD at Cornell University under the direction of Laurent Dubreuil. He has translated articles by Etienne Balibar and Claire Fontaine for diacritics and two chapters in the forthcoming, Oxford Handbook of the History of Terrorism.
Author
Professor of Comparative Literature, Romance Studies and Cognitive ScienceCornell University
Translation
Assistant Professor of FrenchUniversity of Oregon
Content
Opening Opinion
1. Apolitics and Politics
2. Liveable Interruption
3. Forms of Experience
Notes
Index
1. Apolitics and Politics
2. Liveable Interruption
3. Forms of Experience
Notes
Index