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Negativity and Politics : Dionysus and Dialectics from Kant to Poststructuralism, Hardback Book

Negativity and Politics : Dionysus and Dialectics from Kant to Poststructuralism Hardback

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First published in 2000. Although frequently invoked by philosophers and political theorists, the theory of negativity has received remarkably little sustained attention.

Negativity and Politics: Dionysus and dialectics from Kant to poststructuralism is the first full length study of this crucial problematic within philosophy and political theory.

Diana Coole clearly and skilfully shows how the problem of negativity lies at the heart of philosophical and political debate.

First, she explores the meaning of negativity as it appears in modern and postmodern thinking.

Second, she sets out the significance of negativity for politics and our understanding of what constitutes the political.

A key theme of Negativity and Politics is the recurring hostility between the dialectical use of negativity found in Hegel and running through Marxism and critical theory, and the Dionysian use of negativity as developed by Nietzsche and found in important strands of French thought.

Diana Coole shows how the appropriation of negativity in both cases threatens but also informs our understanding of politics and the political.

A fascinating and bold intervention in political theory and philosophy, Negativity and Politics will be of interest to all those in politics, philosophy and contemporary social theory.

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