"Leading thinkers address the relationship between the one and the many in this Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy volume"--
"This volume in the Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy series examines one of the most important topics in contemporary political theory: how to conceptualize the relationship between the one and the many. The essays discuss how to reconcile multiple ontologies without subsuming them to a totalitarian unity. While one school of thought (Deleuze, Negri) seeks to create a new ontology based on the many instead of the one, (which, politically, is close to anarchy), another proposes to understand the "one" as the "ultra-one" of the event (Badiou). In this groundbreaking work, leading thinkers explore these debates and offer alternative concepts. Building on Jean-Luc Nancy's essay who proposes an ontology of "singular plurality," contributors aim to synthesize the one and the many and suggest different ways of forming collectives, beyond the dominant representative political forms. An original and challenging work, Politics of the One addresses new possible ways of bringing people together, integrating philosophy with theoretical and practical problems of politics" --
Part I. The Other One: 1. The Concept of One: 1. More than Oe / Jean Luc Nancy; 2. The fragility of the Oe / Maria Sá Calvacante Schuback; 3. Unity and solitude / Artemy Magun -- Part II. Event of the One: 4. Genesis of the event in Deleuze: from the multiple to the general / Keti Chukhrov; 5. Truth and infinity in Badiou and Heidegger / Alexey Chernyakov ; 6. Suspension of the One: Badiou's objective phenomenology and politics of the subject / Vitaly Kosykhin; 7. Unity in crisis: protometaphysical and postmetaphysical decisions / Jussi Beckman -- Part III. The Singular Plural: 8. Vegetal democracy: the plant that is not one / Michael Marder; 9. Dividuum and condividuality / Gerald Raunig -- Part IV. Unity of the World: 10. The one: composition or event? for a politics of becoming / Boyan Mancher; 11. Elemental nature as the ultimate common ground of the world community / Susanna Lindberg -- Part V. Politics of the One: 12. Negative imperialization / Artemy Magun; 13. ... et unus non solus, sed in pluribus: a citizen as eikon / Oleg Kharkhordin, 14. Drawing lots in politics: the One, the few, and the many / Yves Stintomer; 15. More than two: the One as singularity in ambiguity / Gerald Rauning.