Towards a Post-Modern Understanding of the Political: From Genealogy to Hermeneutics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781403995995)

While claiming that liberalism is the dominant political theory and practice of modernity, this book provides two alternative post-modern theoretical approaches to the political. Concentrating on Nietzsche's and Foucault's work it offers a novel interpretation of their genealogical projects. It argues that genealogy can be applied to analyze different forms of cultural kitsch vis-à-vis the dominant political institutions of consumer capitalism. The problem with consumer capitalism is not so much that it exploits individuals, but that it fosters cheap human existence saturated with the artefacts of kitsch. Contrasting genealogy with hermeneutic philosophy, it calls for a renewal of hermeneutics within the Thomistic tradition.

Author: A. Bielskis
ISBN-10: 1403995990
ISBN-13: 9781403995995
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 08/19/2005
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d