1st Edition
Negativity and Politics Dionysus and Dialectics from Kant to Poststructuralism
By Diana Coole
Copyright 2000
282 Pages
by
Routledge
282 Pages
by
Routledge
282 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 2000. Although frequently invoked by philosophers and political theorists, the theory of negativity has received remarkably little sustained attention. Negativity and Politics: Dionysus and dialectics from Kant to poststructuralism is the first full length study of this crucial problematic within philosophy and political theory. Diana Coole clearly and skilfully shows how the... Read more
Introduction: negativity and politics 1 Negativity and noumena: critical reason at the limit 2 Hegel and his critics: dialectics and difference 3 Nietzsche: negativity as will to power 4 Negativity as invisibility: Merleau-Ponty’s dialectical adventures 4 Negativity as invisibility: Merleau-Ponty’s dialectical adventures 5 Subject–object relations again: identity, non-identity and negative dialectics 6 Subjectivity and the semiotic: gendering negativity, Conclusion: politics and negativity
Biography
Diana Coole is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory and Head of Department at the Department of Politics, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London.
