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Towards A Post-modern Understanding Of The Political - ENG

From Genealogy To Hermeneutics

A. Bielskis

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ISBN:	9780230508347
Formato:	Page Fidelity
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	Springer Nature
Tema:	Filosofía
Subtema:	Política
Año de publicación:	2005-08-19

While claiming that liberalism is the dominant political theory and practice of modernity, this book provides two alternative post-modern theoretical approaches to the political. Concentrating on Nietzsches and Foucaults work it offers a novel interpretation of their genealogical projects. It argues that genealogy can be applied to analyze different forms of cultural kitsch vis-Ã -vis the dominant political institutions of consumer capitalism. The problem with consumer capitalism is not so much that it exploits individuals, but that it fosters cheap human existence saturated with the artefacts of kitsch. Contrasting genealogy with hermeneutic philosophy, it calls for a renewal of hermeneutics within the Thomistic tradition.

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