Virtual Point of Freedom (eBook)

Essays on Politics, Aesthetics, and Religion

Lorenzo Chiesa (Autor)

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2016
160 Seiten
Northwestern University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8101-3375-4 (ISBN)

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The principal motif that runs throughout The Virtual Point of Freedom is a confrontation with the discourse of freedom, or, more specifically, the falsely transgressive ideal of a total emancipation that would know no constraints. Far from delineating a supposed "e;subject of freedom"e; that would allegedly overcome alienation once and for all, the seven chapters in Chiesa's book seek to unfold an innovative reading of the dialectical coincidence between dis-alienation and re-alienation in politics, aesthetics, and religion, using psychoanalysis as a privileged critical tool. Topics include Pier Paolo Pasolini's attack on the visual and biological degeneration of bodies brought about by pleasure-seeking "e;liberal"e; consumerism, Giorgio Agamben's and Slavoj Zizek's conflicting negotiations with the Christian tradition of "e;poverty"e; and "e;inappropriateness"e; as potential redemption, and Alain Badiou's inability to develop a philosophical anthropology that could sustain a coherent politics of emancipation. The book concludes by sketching out the figure of the partisan, a subject who makes it possible to conceive of an intersection between provisional morality and radical politics.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.9.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• ISBN-10: 0-8101-3375-X / 081013375X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-3375-4 / 9780810133754