Antagonistics

by Balakrishnan, Gopal

Type Book

Rate 0.0 /5

Details

Files

Reviews

Download

Title Statements

Full title :Antagonistics / Gopal Balakrishnan.

Summary

'Antagonistics' addresses core political and theoretical questions: How should we conceive the relations between neo-imperial warfare and neoliberalism, American hegemony and capitalist globalization? Reflections on the central issues of the post-9/11 order are set within a larger framework, tracing the intertwined evolution of the modern state system and the capitalist mode of production, from the Treaty of Westphalia to the Occupation of Iraq. Balakrishnan interrogates three key political perspectives - liberalism (Tocqueville), the radical right (Schmitt), and the Marxist left (Althusser) - for their insights on state power and civil society, democracy, and class. 'Antagonistics' combines intellectual history, political philosophy, and historical sociology to produce a highly distinctive portrait of an age of capital and war. -- Back cover.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2009.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Verso
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2009.

Notes

Subtitle from cover.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xiv, 290)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781789604511, 1789604516
oclc:ocn759989985
LC Classification:JZ6385
Dewey Decimal:303.66

Arms and accumulation -- Virgilian visions -- Algorithms of war -- Battleground of the spectacle -- The role of force in history -- The national imagination -- The oracle of post-democracy -- Two on the marble cliffs -- Overcoming emancipation -- The age of identity -- The politics of piety -- From Florence to Moscow -- Machiavelli and the reawakening of history.

Subjects

Capitalism Geschichte Guerre -- Aspect économique Krieg Militarism -- Economic aspects Militarisme -- Aspect économique Politics and war Politik Politique et guerre War -- Economic aspects Wirtschaft