The Imaginary Networksof Political Power
Bartra, Roger
(Expand and correct this book) It has been like planting the thorny cutting of the same rosebush that has previously been pruned; in this labor of intellectual gardening I have cut away many stems which seemed to me withered or bent: dogmatic expressions, arbitrary qualifiers, excessive adjectives, and affirmations that I no longer agree with. I have resisted the temptation of ...
Sinopsis
(Expand and correct this book) It has been like planting the thorny cutting of the same rosebush that has previously been pruned; in this labor of intellectual gardening I have cut away many stems which seemed to me withered or bent: dogmatic expressions, arbitrary qualifiers, excessive adjectives, and affirmations that I no longer agree with. I have resisted the temptation of adding new ideas to the original stem of the work; I have left the structure of the book intact. But I did allow myself a graft, an insert especially prepared for the 1992 English-language edition, where it was published as a postscriptum at the end of the book. In the present edition I have decided to include it at the beginning of the book, as an introduction. I also added a new final chapter about the imaginary networks of political terror. This is a book on political theory dealing with subjects that continue to be important at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It greatly pleases me to be able to confirm this fact and to realize that I was actually foreseeing a political problem that has become a fundamental aspect in today´s world: the confrontation between democracy and terrorism and the diverse expressions of otherness. The book offers a theoretical interpretation of the connections between the dramatic expressions of terrorism and the political mechanism of legitimacy in current democracies. It demonstrates how the theory of imaginary mediations is a useful instrument for dissecting political systems and thereby understanding how they function. -Roger Bartra
Índice
Note to the Expanded and Corrected EditionPreface to the American EditionPostscriptum:IntroductionI. The Omnipresent StateII. Marginals or the Jezebel SyndromeIII. Anonymous MediocrityIV. BeeinflussungsapparatV. The Minor Philosophers and Their New RevelationVI. Postponed DestinyVII. The Chariot of the Silent MajorityVIII. The Balance between Democracy and MarginalityIX. Through the Looking-GlassX. The Symbiotic Structure SimulacrumXI. The West: The Garden of DemocracyXII. Capitalism and DemocracyXIII. Stalin 666XIV. Socialist Accumulation and RepressionXV. Economy and Politics in SocialismXVI. The Extinction of the State TowerXVII. The Oligarchy of the MartyrsXVIII. The Lunatic FringeXIX. Flitcraft s Parable or the Adventures of OverdeterminationXX. The Resurrection of the CorpsesXXI. By Way of an IndexXXII. Epilogue: The Imaginary NetworksA New Chapter: The Imaginary Networks of Political Terror
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