| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 161 pages) |
| Contents |
1 The Modern Age as Mobilization p. 1 -- The Mobilization of the Planet from the Spirit of Self-Intensification p. 5 -- Sketches towards an Outline of a Critique of Political Kinetics p. 14 -- The Prospect of an Asian Renaissance: Towards a Theory of the Ancient p. 23 -- 2 The Other Change: On the Philosophical Situation of Alternative Movements p. 30 -- Panicked Culture -- or: How Much Catastrophe Does a Person Need? p. 32 -- The First Alternative: Metaphysics p. 42 -- The Second Alternative: Poeisis p. 50 -- 3 Eurotaoism? p. 59 -- Nothingness and Historical Consciousness: A Note on the World History of Life Fatigue p. 59 -- The Miscarried Animal and the Self-Birth of the Subject p. 66 -- Eurotaoism p. 86 -- 4 The Fundamental and the Urgent -- or: The Tao of Politics p. 87 -- Also a contribution to the answer as to why a credible policy currently does not exist p. 87 -- Dimensions of the Credibility Gap p. 92 -- The Voting Voice and the Body -- or: How Politics Participates in the Crisis of Embodiment Metaphysics p. 97 -- From an Ethics of Principle to an Ethos of the Urgent p. 102 -- 5 Paris Aphorisms on Rationality p. 107 -- All That is Right p. 107 -- Diplomats as Thinkers in Destitute Times p. 109 -- Low Theory p. 111 -- La chose la mieux partagée du monde p. 113 -- Geometry as Finesse p. 116 -- Unconcealment and Tolerability p. 117 -- Of the Foolishness to Not be an Animal p. 119 -- Invent Yourself! p. 120 -- 6 After Modernity p. 122 -- The Age of the Epilogue p. 122 -- The Interim -- or: The Birth of History from the Spirit of Postponement p. 127 -- Truth and Symbiosis: On the Geological Sublation of World History p. 133 -- For an Ontology of Still-Being p. 148 |
| Summary |
"One of the world's leading philosophers shows how our preoccupation with motion and change is a defining feature of our modern, Western way of thinking"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
"First published in German as Eurotaoismus: Zur Kritik der politischen Kinetik, Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt am Main, 1989." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 20, 2020) |
| Subject |
Political psychology -- History -- 20th century
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Political sociology.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- General.
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Civilization
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Political psychology
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Political sociology
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045748
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Europe -- Civilization -- History
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| Subject |
Europe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Berjan, Sandra, translator.
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| LC no. |
2019045591 |
| ISBN |
9781509518517 |
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1509518517 |
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9781509518494 |
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1509518495 |
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