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Infrapolitics a handbook

Title
Infrapolitics [electronic resource] : a handbook / Alberto Moreiras.
Author
Moreiras, Alberto.
Publication
New York : Fordham University Press, 2021.

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Description
1 online resource (xiii, 226 pages)
Summary
"The personal is not political, even if politics marks it and, in many cases, determines it. Infrapolitics seeks to understand conditions of existence that are not reducible to political life and that exceed any definition of world bound to political determinations. It seeks to mobilize an exteriority without which politics could only be business or administration, that is, oppression. It demands a change in seeing and an everyday practice that subtracts from political totalization in the name of a new production of desire, of a new emancipation, and of a conception of experience that can breach the general captivation of life. In this book, Alberto Moreiras describes a form of thought aiming to provide content for a form of life and to offer a new theoretical practice for concrete existence. The book provides a genealogy of the notion of infrapolitics and places it within contemporary philosophical reflection, examining its deployment in the wake of postphenomenology and deconstruction, Lacanian analysis, the principle of anarchy, and an egalitarian symbolization of social life. In doing so, Moreiras elaborates Infrapolitics as both a general critique of the political apparatus and as an imperative horizon for existential self-understanding"--
Uniform Title
Infrapolítica. English (Online)
Alternative Title
Infrapolítica.
Subject
  • Political science > Philosophy
  • Sociology > Philosophy
Note
  • "This book first appeared in Spanish as Alberto Moreiras, Infrapolítica: Instrucciones de uso, published by La Oficina, 2020" -- Title page verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
ISBN
9780823298372
LCCN
2021037925
OCLC
ssj0002521262
Author
Moreiras, Alberto.
Title
Infrapolitics [electronic resource] : a handbook / Alberto Moreiras.
Imprint
New York : Fordham University Press, 2021.
Edition
First edition.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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