Radical Identity Politics

preview-18
  • Radical Identity Politics Book Detail

  • Author : Torben Bech Dyrberg
  • Release Date : 2020-07-31
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Genre : Political Science
  • Pages : 288
  • ISBN 13 : 1527557499
  • File Size : 68,68 MB

Radical Identity Politics by Torben Bech Dyrberg PDF Summary

Book Description: This book outlines significant traits of radical leftist identity politics. In this type of discourse, arguments are organized around global friend/enemy schemes in ways that are at odds with the right/left matrix of democracy. This is shown by combining discourse analysis of how leftist critics argue in public debates centred on their reactions to the Charlie Hebdo massacre in 2015 and theoretical discussions on leftist identity politics orbiting around Schmitt, Marcuse and Mouffe. It is argued that the friend/enemy approach sacrifices the egalitarian and libertarian core values of the Left, leading it to adopt positions used to brand the reactionary Right. It also holds that leftist identity politics undermines democracy by moralizing enmity and stigmatizing dissent, and by promoting an elitist and relativist agenda. Against this background, the book looks at the nature of the right/left distinction and its political functions in modern democracy. This is further elaborated in relation to the works of Foucault and Rawls’s analyses of parrhesia (free speech) and public reason, which provide a more fruitful approach to right/left and democracy than those based on enmity. For Foucault and Rawls, a vibrant pluralist democracy relies on the autonomy of politics, which secures a space in which citizens are free and equal, which is crucial for free speech and assembly. They focus on issues related to the autonomy of politics and the freestanding nature of public reason; right/left as lateral political orientation coupled with fairness as political justification and the links between regime form and political community as decisive for democracy.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Radical Identity Politics books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Radical Identity Politics

Radical Identity Politics

File Size : 26,26 MB
Total View : 9504 Views
DOWNLOAD

This book outlines significant traits of radical leftist identity politics. In this type of discourse, arguments are organized around global friend/enemy scheme

The Circular Structure of Power

The Circular Structure of Power

File Size : 8,8 MB
Total View : 2206 Views
DOWNLOAD

Few concepts in social theory have been used so extravagantly in recent years as the notion of power. Yet despite its inflated presence, the term is still uncle

Foucault on the Politics of Parrhesia

Foucault on the Politics of Parrhesia

File Size : 81,81 MB
Total View : 4997 Views
DOWNLOAD

Foucault saw the notion of parrhesia (truth-telling) as the most important factor for how governments could and should communicate with their people and vice ve

The Culture of Enterprise in Neoliberalism

The Culture of Enterprise in Neoliberalism

File Size : 67,67 MB
Total View : 7458 Views
DOWNLOAD

This book provides an empirical study of the increasing importance of the concept of the entrepreneur in the context of the neoliberal cultural paradigm. Using

Laclau

Laclau

File Size : 91,91 MB
Total View : 3205 Views
DOWNLOAD

Laclau: A Critical Reader is the first full-length critical appraisal of Laclau's work and includes contributions from several leading philosophers and theorist