Wild Materialism: The Ethic of Terror and the Modern Republic

by Jacques Lezra

Wild Materialism speaks to three related questions in contemporary political philosophy. How, if different social interests and demands are constitutively antagonistic, can social unity emerge out of heterogeneity? Does such unity require corresponding universals, and, if so, what are they, where are they found, or how are they built? Finally, how must the concept of democracy be revised in response to economic globalization, state and nonstate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823232360
• ISBN13: 9780823232369
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"