The Unpolitical

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Massimo Cacciari is one of the leading public intellectuals in today's Italy, both as an outstanding philosopher and political thinker and as now three times (and currently) the mayor of Venice. This collection of essays on political topics provides the best introduction in English to his thought to date. The political focus does not, however, prevent these essays from being an introduction to the full range of Cacciari's thought. The present collection includes chapters on Hofmannstahl, Lukács, Benjamin, Nietzsche, Weber, Derrida, Schmitt, Canetti, and Aeschylus. Written between 1978 and 2006, these essays engagingly address the most hidden tradition in European political thought: the Unpolitical. Far from being a refusal of politics, the Unpolitical represents a merciless critique of political reason and a way out of the now impracticable consolations of utopia and harmonious community. Drawing freely from philosophy and literature, The Unpolitical represents a powerful contribution to contemporary political theory. A lucid and engaging Introduction by Alessandro Carrera sets these essays in the context of Cacciari's work generally and in the broadest context of its historical and geographical backdrop.

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Genre : Philosophy
Author : Massimo Cacciari
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Release : 2009-08-25
File : 513 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780823230051


The Politics Of The Unpolitical

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In this collection of fourteen essays, first published in 1943, Herbert Read extends and amplifies the points of view expressed in his successful pamphlet To Hell with Culture, which has been reprinted here. The ‘politics of the unpolitical’ are the politics of those who strive for human values and not for national or sectional interests. Herbert Read defines these values and demands their recognition as a solvent of social and cultural crises’, and looks forward to the future with constructive vision. This book will be of interest to students of politics, history, and philosophy.

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Genre : Philosophy
Author : Herbert Read
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2015-07-24
File : 171 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781317487043


The Politics Of The Unpolitical

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In a book written during the First World War, Thomas Mann wrote that political activity was alien to the German spirit and that "in fact the political element was absent from the German concept of education." The Politics of the Unpolitical demonstrates the essential unreliability of this generalization by focusing on the political activity of ten of Germany's most widely respected writers in the period from the French Revolution to the founding of the Bismarck Reich in 1871. Gordon A. Craig's book shows how Goethe, Schiller, Heinrich von Kleist, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Holderlin, and Heine were fascinated by the political issues of their day and reacted either by entering public service or threw themselves into efforts to change society for the better. In his study of ten of Germany's most important intellectuals Craig, focuses on their political views and activities and argues that they were not, in fact, representatives of the genre of the "unpolitical German."

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Genre : History
Author : Gordon A. Craig
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release : 1995-05-11
File : 205 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780195357394


The Dublin Review

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Author : Nicholas Patrick Wiseman
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Release : 1944
File : 832 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCAL:B3044897


The Poor And Their Happiness

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Genre : Charity
Author : John GOLDIE (Religious Writer.)
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Release : 1895
File : 232 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCAL:B3132530


The Poor And Their Happiness

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Genre : Charity
Author : John Goldie
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Release : 1895
File : 236 Pages
ISBN-13 : HARVARD:32044004833091


An Introduction To Social Science

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Genre : Social sciences
Author : Arthur Naftalin
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Release : 1953
File : 1192 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015035600835


The Chautauquan

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Release : 1896
File : 844 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015074638613


The Economist

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Genre : Commerce
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Release : 1875
File : 890 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015016712740


Forbidden Laughter

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Describes the integral role of humor in the sociopolitical climate of nineteenth-century Prussia.

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Genre : History
Author : Mary Lee Townsend
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Release : 1992
File : 288 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015029868703