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Gourgouris, Stathis, 1958- author.
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Said, Edward W.
Transcendence (Philosophy)
Critical theory.
Political science -- Philosophy.
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The perils of the on...
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The perils of the one / Stathis Gourgouris.
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Gourgouris, Stathis, 1958- author.
New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]
Subjects
Said, Edward W.
Transcendence (Philosophy)
Critical theory.
Political science -- Philosophy.
ISBN:
9780231192880 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0231192886 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
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xxv, 234 pages ; 25 cm
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Transformation, not transcendence -- The lesson of Pierre Clastres -- On self-alteration -- Zizek's realism -- Paul's Greek -- Every religion is idolatry.
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From the earliest times, societies have been seduced by the temptation of unitary thinking. Recognizing the vulnerability of existence, people and cultures privilege regimes that confer authority on a single entity, a sovereign ruler or a transcendental deity, which they embrace with unquestioned devotion. Such obsessions precipitate contempt for the worldliness of real bodies in real time and refusal of responsibility and agency. In The Perils of the One, Stathis Gourgouris offers a philosophical anthropology that confronts the legacy of "monarchical thinking" the desire to subjugate oneself to unitary principles and structures, whether political or moral, theological or secular. In wide-ranging essays that are at once poetic and polemical, intellectual and passionate, Gourgouris reads across politics and theology, literary and art criticism, psychoanalysis and feminism in a critique of both political theology and the metaphysics of secularism. He engages with a range of figures from the Apostle Paul and Trinitarian theologians, to Schmitt and Freud, to contemporary thinkers such as Pierre Clastres, Edward Said, Slavoj Zizek, Judith Butler, and Luce Irigaray. At once a broad perspective on human history and a detailed examination of our present moment, The Perils of the One offers glimpses of what a counterpolitics of autonomy would look like from anarchic subjectivities that refuse external ideals, resist the allure of obedience, and embrace otherness.
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