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Deciding what is and what is not political is a fraught, perhaps intractably opaque matter. Just who decides the question; on what grounds; to what ends- these seem like properly political questions themselves. Deciding what is political and what is not can serve to contain and restrain struggles, m...
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Fordham University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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Idiom : inventing writing theory
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| Summary: |
Deciding what is and what is not political is a fraught, perhaps intractably opaque matter. Just who decides the question; on what grounds; to what ends- these seem like properly political questions themselves. Deciding what is political and what is not can serve to contain and restrain struggles, make existing power relations at once self-evident and opaque, and blur the possibility of reimagining them differently. Political Concepts seeks to revive our common political vocabulary - both everyday and academic -and to do so critically. Its entries take the form of essays in which each contri |
| Carrier Form: | 257 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliography (pages 233-252) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780823276684 0823276686 9780823276691 0823276694 |
| Index Number: | JA66 |
| CLC: | D0 |
| Call Number: | D0/P769-19 |
| Contents: |
Political concepts: a critical lexicon -- Archē -- Blood -- Colony -- Concept -- Constituent power -- Development -- Exploitation -- Federation -- Identity -- The rule of law -- Sexual difference -- Translation. |