04306nam 22006371 450 991045676560332120140603104241.01-5013-0131-41-282-59067-797866125906721-4411-4935-X10.5040/9781501301315(CKB)2520000000008163(EBL)495362(OCoLC)642475399(SSID)ssj0000334473(PQKBManifestationID)11241562(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000334473(PQKBWorkID)10260353(PQKB)10813939(MiAaPQ)EBC495362(Au-PeEL)EBL495362(CaPaEBR)ebr10372198(CaONFJC)MIL259067(OCoLC)893334867(UtOrBLW)bpp09258124(EXLCZ)99252000000000816320150227d2010 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrAgainst the personification of democracy a Lacanian critique of political subjectivity /by Wesley C. SwedlowNew York :Continuum,2010.1 online resource (206 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4411-4415-3 0-8264-3421-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Problems with Reality -- Chapter 1. Desire and Ideology in the Leviathan -- Chapter 2. Internal Externalities -- Chapter 3. The Return of the Political -- Chapter 4. The Personification of Democracy -- Conclusion: Against the Personification of Democracy -- Index."Against the Personification of Democracy offers a new theory of political subjectivity that puts the dilemma of desire into the forefront. By using Lacan to read key figures in political philosophy, the book demonstrates why democratic theory -- representative or radical - is not only ineffective when it comes to the best form of political cohabitation, but also productive of destructive and self-defeating forces. The book begins with the debate between Hobbesian and Lockeian notions of subjectivity to argue that the nature of political subjectivity is a function of the problem of desire. It then considers the question of the proper structure of political cohabitation in light of Hannah Arendt's insights into what happened to the stateless in World War II, leading to a distinction between the person in a bare and unadorned form and the public persona that is represented in most forms of democracy. Lacan is used to reread the question of political subjectivity, but, unlike radical democratic theory, the book argues against agonistic, representative, and thus endless democracy. Such a political formation is seen as an instigation and ultimate disappointment to desire (the persona), which leads to general negative outcomes, including genocide, concentration camps, and the removal of rights. Arguing against Zizek's proposal that a radical Act can save us politically, the book proposes a universal political formation as the only way out of the dilemma of political desire. This formation is not dependent on public personas, but rooted in actual persons meeting in their locality and sovereign to no one. An indispensable text for anyone interested in political theory, political philosophy, and democratic theory, Against the Personification of Democracy critiques positive theories of sovereignty through its analysis of political subjectivity and the problem of desire. More importantly, it provides a truly universal theory of democratic cohabitation that escapes political desire and thus the scapegoats of democratic failure, not to mention the anxiety of the impossibility of the democratic promise."--Bloomsbury Publishing.Political sciencePhilosophySubjectivitySocial & political philosophyElectronic books.Political sciencePhilosophy.Subjectivity.320.01Swedlow Wesley C.958725UtOrBLWUtOrBLWBOOK9910456765603321Against the personification of democracy2172360UNINA02569nam 2200445 450 991079264670332120230810001700.090-04-33906-X10.1163/9789004339064(CKB)3710000001018450(MiAaPQ)EBC4790850(OCoLC)970042480(nllekb)BRILL9789004339064(EXLCZ)99371000000101845020170227d2017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierRabbinic body language non-verbal communication in Palestinian rabbinic literature of late antiquity /by Catherine HezserLeiden ;Boston :Brill.c2017.1 online resource (308 pages)Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ;v. 17990-04-33905-1 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Appearance and Demeanor -- Posture and Spatial Behavior -- Gestures -- Facial Expressions -- Conclusions: Body Language in Rabbinic Literature -- Bibliography -- Index of Sources -- Index of Subjects.This study constitutes the first comprehensive examination of rabbinic body language represented in Palestinian rabbinic sources of late antiquity. Catherine Hezser examines rabbis’ appearance and demeanor, spatial movement, gestures, and facial expressions on the basis of literary and social-anthropological methods and theories. She discusses the various forms of rabbis’ non-verbal communication in the context of Graeco-Roman and ancient Christian literary sources and in connection with the material culture of Roman and early Byzantine Palestine. Catherine Hezser convincingly shows that in rabbinic literature body language serves as an important means of rabbis’ self-fashioning. Rabbinic texts create the image of a particularly Jewish type of intellectual who functioned and competed for adherents within the highly visual and body-conscious environment of late antiquity.Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism179.Nonverbal communication in rabbinical literatureNonverbal communication in rabbinical literature.296.1/2406Hezser Catherine1960-922024NL-LeKBNL-LeKBBOOK9910792646703321Rabbinic body language3780337UNINA