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The politics of nihilism: from the nineteenth century to contemporary Israel

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Political Theory and Contemporary PhilosophyPublication details: New York Bloomsbury 2014Description: xi, 231 pISBN:
  • 9781623561482
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.9569401 P6
Summary: Contemporary politics is faced, on the one hand, with political stagnation and lack of a progressive vision on the side of formal, institutional politics, and, on the other, with various social movements that venture to challenge modern understandings of representation, participation,and democracy. Interestingly, both institutional and anti-institutional sides of this antagonism tend to accuse each other of "nihilism", namely, of mere oppositional destructiveness and failure to offer a constructive, positive alternative to the status quo. Nihilism seems, then, all engulfing. In order to better understand this political situation and ourselves within it,The Politics of Nihilism proposes a thorough theoretical examination of the concept of nihilism and its historical development followed by critical studies of Israeli politics and culture. The authors show that, rather than a mark of mutual opposition and despair, nihilism is a fruitful category for tracing and exploring the limits of political critique, rendering them less rigid and opening up a space of potentiality for thought, action, and creation. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-politics-of-nihilism-9781623561482/#sthash.rb3HDS7p.dpuf
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Table of Content:

Introduction (Roy Ben-Shai and Nitzan Lebovic)

Chapter 1 Nihilism as Stasis: A Plea for a New Hermeneutics of Exposure (Nitzan Lebovic)

Chapter 2 Less than Nihilism (Luca Di Blasi)

Chapter 3 Doing Nothing or Nothing Doing? (Michael Gillespie)

Chapter 4 A Concept of Nihilism for the Coming End of the
World (Adi Ophir)

Chapter 5 Nihilism, Revolt, and the Spectacle (Bülent Diken)

Chapter 6 The Epistemology of Nihilism in Otto Weininger's Sex
and Character (Bettina Bergo)

Chapter 7 In Sickness and in Health: Nietzsche, Améry and the “Moral Difference” (Roy Ben-Shai)

Chapter 8 Nihilism and Repetition. Dahlia Ravikovitch's Reiterations as Critique (Liron Mor)

Chapter 9 What is a “Manifestly Illegal” Order? Law and Politics after Yoram Kaniuk's Nevelot (Itamar Mann)

Chapter 10 To Be at Home: Spaces of Citizenship in the Community Settlements of the Galilee (Fatina Abreek-Zubeidat and Ronen Ben-Arie)

Bibliography

Contemporary politics is faced, on the one hand, with political stagnation and lack of a progressive vision on the side of formal, institutional politics, and, on the other, with various social movements that venture to challenge modern understandings of representation, participation,and democracy. Interestingly, both institutional and anti-institutional sides of this antagonism tend to accuse each other of "nihilism", namely, of mere oppositional destructiveness and failure to offer a constructive, positive alternative to the status quo. Nihilism seems, then, all engulfing.

In order to better understand this political situation and ourselves within it,The Politics of Nihilism proposes a thorough theoretical examination of the concept of nihilism and its historical development followed by critical studies of Israeli politics and culture. The authors show that, rather than a mark of mutual opposition and despair, nihilism is a fruitful category for tracing and exploring the limits of political critique, rendering them less rigid and opening up a space of potentiality for thought, action, and creation.

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-politics-of-nihilism-9781623561482/#sthash.rb3HDS7p.dpuf

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