04741nam 22007575 450 991079635100332120230124194541.00-8232-7728-30-8232-7671-610.1515/9780823276714(CKB)3790000000548334(MiAaPQ)EBC5151543(DE-B1597)555447(DE-B1597)9780823276714(OCoLC)1013824826(EXLCZ)99379000000054833420200723h20182018 fg 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierPolitical Concepts A Critical Lexicon /Adi Ophir, Ann Laura Stoler; J. M. BernsteinNew York, NY :Fordham University Press,[2018]©20181 online resource (260 pages) illustrations, tablesIdiom: Inventing Writing Theory0-8232-7668-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --CONTENTS --INTRODUCTION. POLITICAL CONCEPTS: A CRITICAL LEXICON --1. ARCHĒ --2. BLOOD --3. COLONY --4. CONCEPT --5. CONSTITUENT POWER --6. DEVELOPMENT --7. EXPLOITATION --8. FEDERATION --9. IDENTITY --10. THE RULE OF LAW --11. SEXUAL DIFFERENCE --12. TRANSLATION --BIBLIOGRAPHY --CONTRIBUTORS --INDEXDeciding what is and what is not political is a fraught, perhaps intractably opaque matter. Just who decides the question; on what grounds; to what ends—these seem like properly political questions themselves. Deciding what is political and what is not can serve to contain and restrain struggles, make existing power relations at once self-evident and opaque, and blur the possibility of reimagining them differently. Political Concepts seeks to revive our common political vocabulary—both everyday and academic—and to do so critically. Its entries take the form of essays in which each contributor presents her or his own original reflection on a concept posed in the traditional Socratic question format “What is X?” and asks what sort of work a rethinking of that concept can do for us now. The explicitness of a radical questioning of this kind gives authors both the freedom and the authority to engage, intervene in, critique, and transform the conceptual terrain they have inherited. Each entry, either implicitly or explicitly, attempts to re-open the question “What is political thinking?” Each is an effort to reinvent political writing. In this setting the political as such may be understood as a property, a field of interest, a dimension of human existence, a set of practices, or a kind of event. Political Concepts does not stand upon a decided concept of the political but returns in practice and in concern to the question “What is the political?” by submitting the question to a field of plural contention.The concepts collected in Political Concepts are “Arche” (Stathis Gourgouris), “Blood” (Gil Anidjar), “Colony” (Ann Laura Stoler), “Concept” (Adi Ophir), “Constituent Power” (Andreas Kalyvas), “Development” (Gayatri Spivak), “Exploitation” (Étienne Balibar), “Federation” (Jean Cohen), “Identity” (Akeel Bilgrami), “Rule of Law” (J. M. Bernstein), “Sexual Difference” (Joan Copjec), and “Translation” (Jacques Lezra)Idiom (Fordham University Press)Political sciencePhilosophyIdentity.authority.blood.colony.concept.definition.exploitation.lexicon.politics.translation.Political sciencePhilosophy.320.01Ophir Adiauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut170272Anidjar Gil1187637Balibar Étienne1942-381689Bernstein J. M1581644Bilgrami Akeel732400Cohen Jean L618616Copjec Joan1581645Gourgouris Stathis1187640Kalyvas Andreas1127184Lezra Jacques706129Ophir Adi170272Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty324501Stoler Ann Laura522466Bernstein J. M.edthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtStoler Ann Lauraauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autDE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910796351003321Political Concepts3863338UNINA