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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452335603321

Autore

Shapiro Michael J

Titolo

Reading the postmodern polity [[electronic resource] ] : political theory as textual practice / / Michael J. Shapiro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1992

ISBN

0-8166-8388-3

0-8166-1965-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 177 pages)

Disciplina

306.2

Soggetti

Political culture

Political science

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-173) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Language and Power: The Spaces of Critical Interpretation; 2. Politicizing Ulysses: Rationalistic, Critical, and Genealogical Commentaries; 3. Weighing Anchor: Postmodern Journeys from the Life-World; 4. Political Economy and Mimetic Desire in Babette's Feast; 5. American Fictions and Political Culture: DeLillo's Libra and Bellah et al.'s Habits of the Heart; 6. Spatiality and Policy Discourse: Reading the Global City; 7. Strategic Discourse/Discursive Strategy: The Representation of ""Security Policy"" in the Video Age

8. The Politics of Fear: DeLillo's Postmodern Burrow 9. Terminations: Elkin's Magic Kingdom and the Politics of Death; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Offers the first demonstration by a political theorist of how textuality is inherent to political practice.