The End of Politics?: Explorations into Modern Antipolitics

by Andreas Schedler (Editor)

Overview

Since communism collapsed we have witnessed the emergence of numerous political actors - neopopulists, neoliberals, fundamentalists, nationalists, and others - who share one ideological leitmotif: their deep contempt for modern democratic politics. The book asks an old question: What is politics? And it adds a new one to the agenda of social sciences: What is antipolitics? Some authors trace antipolitical traditions in Western political thought, while others analyze the rhetoric of contemporary antipolitical actors in the US, the former Soviet Union, and South America. The book contains contributions from Charles H. Fairbanks Jr, Barry Hindess, Erwin A. Jaffe, Norbert Lechner, Jose Nun, Louis Pauly, Andreas Schedler, and Gershon Weiler.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333674031
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	12/20/1996
Edition description:	1997
Pages:	191
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Notes on the Contributors - Introduction: Antipolitics: Closing and Colonizing the Public Sphere; A.Schedler - Antipolitical Motifs in Western Political Discourse; B.Hindess - Logos against Leviathan: The Hobbesian Origins of Modern Antipolitics; G.Weiler - Our Own Invisible Hand: Antipolitics as an American Given; E.A.Jaffe - The Public Void: Antipolitics in the Former Soviet Union; C.H.Fairbanks,Jr - Deliberation and Its Discontents: H. Ross Perot's Antipolitical Populism; G.Brown - Populism, Representation, and Menemism; J.Nun - Markets versus Politics: On Globalization, Language, and Legitimacy; L.Pauly - Politics in Retreat: The Rescoping of Our Political Maps; N.Lechner - Index