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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788990403321

Autore

Cacciari Massimo

Titolo

The unpolitical [[electronic resource] ] : on the radical critique of political reason / / Massimo Cacciari ; edited and with an introduction by Alessandro Carrera ; translated by Massimo Verdicchio

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-8232-3007-4

0-8232-3583-1

0-8232-4678-7

1-282-69896-6

9786612698965

0-8232-3865-2

0-8232-3005-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (v, 295 p. )

Altri autori (Persone)

CarreraAlessandro <1954->

VerdicchioMassimo

Disciplina

320.01

Soggetti

Political science - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translated from the Italian.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-290) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: On Massimo Cacciari's disenchanted activism / Alessandro Carrera -- Impracticable utopias : Hofmannsthal, Lukács, Benjamin -- Nietzsche and the unpolitical -- Weber and the critique of socialist reason -- Project -- Catastrophes -- The language of power in Canetti : a scrutiny -- Law and justice : on the theological and mystical dimensions of the modern political -- The geophilosophy of Europe -- Weber and the politician as tragic hero.

Sommario/riassunto

Massimo Cacciari is one of the leading public intellectuals in today's Italy. This collection of essays on political topics provides the best introduction in English to his thought to date.