Speculation

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-8101-3935-0
Verlag: Northwestern University Press

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

Reihe: Diaeresis

Speculation: Politics, Ideology, Event develops Hegel's radical perspective of speculative thought as a way of reclaiming and revitalizing the sense of the future and its possibilities. Engaging with such figures as Alain Badiou, Quentin Meillassoux, Ernesto Laclau, Slavoj Žižek, and Fredric Jameson, Glyn Daly articulates the distinctness of speculative philosophy and draws its implications for new debates in areas of science, politics, capitalism, ideology, ethics, and the event. 

In a confrontation with today's fatalistic milieu, principal emphasis is given to Hegel's idea of infinity as the intrinsic dimension of negativity within all finitude. Against the modern era's paradigmatic tendency to externalize social problems in the form of antagonism and Otherness, Daly argues for a renewal of utopian thought based on Hegelian reconciliation and the affirmation of excess as the essence of all being. On these grounds, he advances a new kind of political imagination that in speculative terms centers on uncompromising notions of truth and reason.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Daly, Glyn

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction: Speculation
- 1. Hegel’s Speculative Universe: Correlationalism, Contingency, and Necessity
- 2. Politics and Totality
- 3. The Veil of Ideology
- 4. Capital
- 5. Class Struggle
- 6. A Touch of Evil: Ethics and Event
- 7. Speculative Utopia
- Notes
- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Glyn Daly is an associate professor in international relations and politics in the Faculty of Business and Law at the University of Northampton. He is the coauthor of Conversations with Žižek.