Politics Out of History

by Wendy Brown

Book Overview

What happens to left and liberal political orientations when faith in progress is broken, when both the sovereign individual and sovereign states seem tenuous, when desire seems as likely to seek punishment as freedom, when all political conviction is revealed as contingent and subjective? Politics Out of History is animated by the question of how we navigate the contemporary political landscape when the traditional compass points of modernity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691070857
• ISBN13: 9780691070858
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"