An Archaeology of the Political

Regimes of Power from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-231-17992-8
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 237 mm x 161 mm, Gewicht: 512 g

Reihe: Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political History

In An Archaeology of the Political, Elías José Palti argues that the realm of the political is not a natural, transhistorical entity. Instead, he claims that the horizon of the political arose in the context of a series of changes that affirmed the power of absolute monarchies in seventeenth-century Europe. He traces its development from this period through a succession of redefinitions accompanying alterations in regimes of power and up to the present, thus providing a genealogy of the concept.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Palti, Elias

Palti, Elías

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editor's Foreword, by Dick HowardAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A Conceptual History of the Political—the Archaeological Project1. The Theological Genesis of the Political2. The Tragic Scene: The Symbolic Nature of Power and the Problem of Expression3. The Discourse of Emancipation and the Emergence of Democracy as a Problem: The Latin American Case4. The Rebirth of the Tragic Scene and the Emergence of the Political as a Conceptual ProblemConclusion: The End of a Long Cycle—the Second Disenchantment of the WorldNotesBibliographyIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Elías José Palti is principal researcher for the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (Argentina), a professor at both the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes and the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, and the director of the Center for Intellectual History at the National University of Quilmes. He is a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow and the author of ten books in Spanish and many articles in different languages. He is also a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the History of Ideas and Prismas. Revista de Historia Intelectual.