| Description |
504 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 463-491) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction. Causa locuta, Roma finita -- Pt. 1, The state of things. Happiness and torture in the atonal world ; The family myth of ideology ; Radical intellectuals, or, Why Heidegger took the right step (albeit in the wrong direction) in 1933 -- Pt. 2, Lessons from the past. Revolutionary terror from Robespierre to Mao ; Stalinism revisited, or, How Stalin saved the humanity of man ; Why populism is (sometimes) good enough in practice, but not in theory -- Pt. 3, What is to be done? The crisis of determinate negation -- Alain Badiou, or, The violence of subtraction -- Unbehagen in der Natur. |
| Subject |
Postmodernism.
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Ideology.
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| ISBN |
9781844671083 (hbk.) |
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1844671089 (hbk.) |
| Standard No. |
NZ1 11113362 |
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AU@ 000043126608 |
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