Universal Post-Communism: KojĖve and Agamben on the End of History -- A Time Like No Other: Russian Politics after the End of History -- The Janitor Generation: The Ethics of Disengagement in the Late-Soviet Period -- From a Shining Void: The Dialectic of Bespredel in Post-Communist Social Praxis -- The Invisible Victory: Experimentum Linguae and the Appropriation of Anomie
Summary
The Ethics of Postcommunism offers a radical reinterpretation of contemporary Russian politics in terms of Giorgio Agamben's political philosophy. Reconstructing Agamben's conception of the end of history that challenges the well-known Hegelian thesis, Prozorov approaches post-communist Russia as a post-historical terrain, in which the teleological dimension of politics has been deactivated. Tracing the suspension of the historical dialectic from the late-soviet period to the Medvedev presidency, the author develops a paradigm of "inoperative" social praxis proper to the post-communist condition
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-262) and index
