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Pyropolitics eBook

When The World Is Ablaze

by Michael Marder
language: english
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, December of 2014 ‧
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From the books and heretics burnt on the pyres of the Inquisition to self-immolations at protest rallies, from the massive burning of oil on the global scale to inflammatory speech, from the imagery of revolutionary sparks ready to ignite the spirits of the oppressed to car bombings in the Middle East, fire proves to be an indispensable element of the political.

To account for this elemental source of heat and light,
Pyropoliticsdelineates a semantico-discursive field, replete with the literal and metaphorical mentions and uses of fires, flames, sparks, immolations, incinerations, and burning in political theory and practices. Relying on classical political theory, literature, theology, contemporary philosophy, and an analysis of current events, Michael Marder argues that geo-politics, or the politics of the Earth, has always had an unstable, at once shadowy and blinding, underside—pyropolitics, or the politics of fire. If this obscure double of geopolitics is, increasingly, dictating the rules of the game today, then it is crucial to learn to speak its language, to discern its manifestations, and to project where our world ablaze is heading.


Pyropolitics

When The World Is Ablaze

by Michael Marder

Property Description
ISBN: 9781783480302
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release Date: December of 2014
Language: English
Format: eBook
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Categories: eBooks in English > Social Sciences and Humanities > Philosophy
EAN: 9781783480302