{"product_id":"anatomy-of-failure-oliver-feltham-9781441158642","title":"An Anatomy of Failure: Philosophy and Political Action","description":"\u003cp\u003eModern liberalism begins in the forgetting of the English Revolution. \u003ci\u003eAnatomy of Failure\u003c\/i\u003e seeks to right that wrong by exploring the concept of political action, playing its history against its philosophy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 1640s are a period of institutional failure and political disaster: the country plunges into civil war, every agent is naked. Established procedures are thrown aside and the very grounds for action are fiercely debated and recast. Five queries emerge in the experience of the New Model Army, five queries that outline an anatomy of failure, isolating the points at which actors disagree, conflict flares up, and alliances dissolve: Who can act? On what grounds? Who is right about what is to be done? Why do we succeed or fail? If you and I split, were we ever united, and to what end? The application of these questions to the Leveller-agitator writings, and then to Thomas Hobbes and John Locke's philosophies, generates \u003ci\u003emodels of political action\u003c\/i\u003e. No mere philosophical abstractions, the Hobbesian and Lockean models of \u003ci\u003esovereign\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e contractual\u003c\/i\u003e action have dominated the very practice of politics for centuries. Today it is time to recuperate the Leveller-agitator model of\u003ci\u003e joint\u003c\/i\u003e action, a model unique in its adequacy to the threat of failure and in its vocation for building the common-wealth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnatomy of Failure\u003c\/i\u003e is ideal for upper-level undergraduates and postgraduates taking courses in Contemporary Political Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Modern European Philosophy, Contemporary French Philosophy, Critical Theory and Radical Political Thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Oliver Feltham\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1441158642\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781441158642\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/02\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 5.40w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2014","brand":"Oliver Feltham","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43935035195647,"sku":"9781441158642","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_18f73d48-39ec-40da-8a33-080faf350e06.jpg?v=1681417474","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/anatomy-of-failure-oliver-feltham-9781441158642","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}