Freedom Not Yet
Liberation and the Next World Order
1st Edition
Published on 2. December 2009
428 pages
978-0-8223-9160-9 (ISBN)
Description
Argues that the democratic neoliberal project in the West has failed for the vast majority of the human population; the book provides the philosophical bases for alternatives to capitalist exploitation and the regimes of power that support it.
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Kenneth Surin is Professor and Chair of the Program in Literature at Duke University. He is the author of Christ, Ethics, and Tragedy; The Turnings of Darkness and Light: Essays in Philosophical and Systematic Theology; and Theology and the Problem of Evil.
Content
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Part I
1. The Complementary Deaths of the Thinking Subject and of the Citizen Subject 21
2. Producing a Marxist Concept of Liberation 34
3. Postpolitical Politics and Global Capitalism 65
4. The Exacerbation of Uneven Development: Analysis of the Current Regime of Accumulation 94
5. The Possibility of a New State I: Delinking 125
Part II
6. Models of Liberalization I: The Politics of Identity 141
7. Models of Liberalization II: The Politics of Subjectivity 165
8. Models of Liberalization III: The Politics of the Event 197
9. Models of Liberalization IV: The Religious Transcendent 226
10. Models of Liberalization V: Nomad Politics 241
Part III
11. The Possibility of a New State II: Heterotopia 265
12. Prospects for the New Political Subject and Liberation 285
Conclusion 295
Notes 299
Bibliography 371
Index 407
Introduction 1
Part I
1. The Complementary Deaths of the Thinking Subject and of the Citizen Subject 21
2. Producing a Marxist Concept of Liberation 34
3. Postpolitical Politics and Global Capitalism 65
4. The Exacerbation of Uneven Development: Analysis of the Current Regime of Accumulation 94
5. The Possibility of a New State I: Delinking 125
Part II
6. Models of Liberalization I: The Politics of Identity 141
7. Models of Liberalization II: The Politics of Subjectivity 165
8. Models of Liberalization III: The Politics of the Event 197
9. Models of Liberalization IV: The Religious Transcendent 226
10. Models of Liberalization V: Nomad Politics 241
Part III
11. The Possibility of a New State II: Heterotopia 265
12. Prospects for the New Political Subject and Liberation 285
Conclusion 295
Notes 299
Bibliography 371
Index 407
