Politics of the One
Concepts of the One and the Many in Contemporary Thought
Published on 3. January 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
280 pages
978-1-4411-8719-2 (ISBN)
Description
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 One addresses new possible ways of bringing people together, integrating philosophy with theoretical and practical problems of politics.
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 One addresses new possible ways of bringing people together, integrating philosophy with theoretical and practical problems of politics.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
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Paperback (trade)
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Height: 228 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
459 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-8719-2 (9781441187192)
DOI
CBID166643
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Person
Artemy Magun is Professor of Democratic Theory, Chair of the Department of Political Science and Sociology at the European University at Saint-Petersburg. He also teaches at the Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences (alias Smolny College) of the Saint-Petersburg State University.
Artemy Magun received PhDs in political sciences from Michigan University (2003) and in philosophy from Strasbourg University (2004). He is author of many articles, of two books in Russian, one of which is also published in French. His book Negative Revolution is to appear in Continuum in 2013. A. Magun is member of the collective "Chto Delat" (Russia).
Artemy Magun received PhDs in political sciences from Michigan University (2003) and in philosophy from Strasbourg University (2004). He is author of many articles, of two books in Russian, one of which is also published in French. His book Negative Revolution is to appear in Continuum in 2013. A. Magun is member of the collective "Chto Delat" (Russia).
Content
About the authors
Introduction
Part I The other One
1 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 One
4 Genesis of the event in Deleuze: From the multiple to the general Keti Chukhrov
5 Truth and infinity in Badiou and Heidegger Alexey Chernyakov
6 Suspension of the One: Badiou's objective phenomenology and politics of the subject Vitaly Kosykhin
7 Unity in crisis: Protometaphysical and postmetaphysical decisions Jussi Backman
Part III The Singular Plural
8 Vegetal democracy: The plant that is not One Michael Marder
9 Dividuum and condividuality Gerald Raunig
Part IV Unity of the World
10 The One: Composition or event? For a politics of the becoming Boyan Manchev
11 Elemental nature as the ultimate common ground of the world community Susanna Lindberg
Part V Politics of the One
12 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
Introduction
Part I The other One
1 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 One
4 Genesis of the event in Deleuze: From the multiple to the general Keti Chukhrov
5 Truth and infinity in Badiou and Heidegger Alexey Chernyakov
6 Suspension of the One: Badiou's objective phenomenology and politics of the subject Vitaly Kosykhin
7 Unity in crisis: Protometaphysical and postmetaphysical decisions Jussi Backman
Part III The Singular Plural
8 Vegetal democracy: The plant that is not One Michael Marder
9 Dividuum and condividuality Gerald Raunig
Part IV Unity of the World
10 The One: Composition or event? For a politics of the becoming Boyan Manchev
11 Elemental nature as the ultimate common ground of the world community Susanna Lindberg
Part V Politics of the One
12 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