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Writing, the political test
- Title
- Writing, the political test / Claude Lefort ; translated by David Ames Curtis.
- Author
- Lefort, Claude.
- Publication
- Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, [2000], ©2000.
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- Description
- xlii, 312 pages; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Post-contemporary interventions
- Uniform Title
- Ecrire, à l'épreuve du politique. English
- Post-contemporary interventions.
- Alternative Title
- Ecrire, à l'épreuve du politique.
- Subject
- Note
- Includes index.
- Contents
- The Interposed Body: George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four -- Humanism and Anti-Humanism: Homage to Salman Rushdie -- Tocqueville: Democracy and the Art of Writing. An Exploration of the Flesh of the Social: Note on Democracy in America. A Thinking of Contraries: Note on The Old Regime and the Revolution -- Sade: The Boudoir and the City -- Guizot: Polemical Liberalism -- Machiavelli and the Verita Effetuale -- The Idea of Humanity and the Project of Universal Peace -- The Revolution as New Religion -- Three Notes on Leo Strauss -- Dialogue with Pierre Clastres -- Philosopher? -- Reflections on the Present. Decomposition of Totalitarianism. Rebirth of Democracy? The Test of Truth.
- ISBN
- 0822324849 (alk. paper)
- 0822325209 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 99051699
- OCLC
- 42667982
- ocm42667982
- SCSB-3892505
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries