Post-politics
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 123 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5093-5282-9
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Post-politics refers to the critique of the emergence, in the post-Cold War period, of a politics of consensus on a global scale: the dissolution of the Eastern Communist bloc following the collapse of the Berlin Wall instituted a post-ideological consensus based on the acceptance of the capitalist market and the liberal state as the organisational foundations of society. Generated by a cohort of radical philosophers – namely Jacques Ranciere, Alain Badiou and Slavoj Zizek – and their concern with politics as the institution of radical, active equality, this critique claims that the post-ideological politics of consensus has occasioned the systematic foreclosure of the properly political moment: with the institution of a series of new "post-democratic” governmental techniques, politics proper is reduced to social administration. Meanwhile, with the rise of the postmodernist "politics of self” comes a concomitant new "politics of conduct”, in...