Introduction: Life Without Idea Part I: Revolt and Counter-revolt 1. Revolt and Repetition 2. The Profane 3. Revolt as Pure Politics Excursus I: The Ghost of Spartacus Part II: Revolt and Counter-Revolution 4. The Infinite Revolution 5. Nothing and Everything 6. Strategy and Intoxication 7. Mass Movement, Elections and the Medieval Man 8. Antagonisms and Disjunctive Syntheses Excursus II: Huxley’s Brave New World – and Ours Part III: Critique and Counter-Critique 9. Critique of Critique of Critique… 10. Critique as Communism, Communism as Critique Afterword: De Te Fabula Narratur!
Biography
Bülent Diken is Senior Lecturer at Lancaster University, Department of Sociology. His research fields are social theory, post-structuralism, political philosophy and urbanism. His books include Strangers, Ambivalence and Social Theory (Ashgate 1998). He is author of The Culture of Exception – Sociology Facing the Camp (Routledge 2005), I Terrorens Skygge (Samfundslitteratur 2005), Sociology through the Projector (Routledge 2007) and Nihilism (Routledge 2009).
