Exploring the evolution of political and philosophical thought, this book delves into the implications of a post-modern state landscape. It examines how traditional concepts of governance and power have shifted, challenging readers to reconsider the foundations of political theory. Through a critical analysis of contemporary issues, the author invites a rethinking of the relationship between politics and philosophy, emphasizing the need for new frameworks to understand the complexities of modern society.
The book delves into the philosophical explorations of power by Central European writers Elias Canetti and Herta Müller, examining how they articulate forms of domination and the intricacies of authority across different contexts. It investigates the interplay between language and literature, particularly the connections between "power" and "potential," offering a profound literary analysis of these themes. Through this lens, the author provides a radical diagnosis of the mechanisms of command and law in society.
Capital is a chameleon that assumes different guises while maintaining the same logic, exploiting crisis as an opportunity for regeneration. Yet each transformation opens a passage for radical conflict and new revolutionary theories and subjects. This is particularly true of the critical passage from the 1920s to the 1930s, which Giacomo Marramao presents as an incandescent laboratory of theoretical and practical transformations and fierce confrontations. Moving from Austro-Marxism to Frankfurt School Critical Theory, from Hilferding to Grossmann, and Max Weber to Carl Schmitt, The Bewitched World of Capital shows how 'the Political' was remade in the passage from free-market capitalism to mass society, throwing new light on forms of domination and conflict that also traverse our present.
Der Leitfaden, der in vorliegendem Band durch die Labyrinthe der modernen Perspektive führt, ist durch ein paradoxes Merkmal gekennzeichnet: es ist die Einsicht, dass Zeit außerhalb ihres Bezugs zu räumlichen Darstellungen nicht fassbar ist. Die daraus resultierende philosophische „Deplazierung“ stößt frontal auf den Anspruch der Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts, der Zeitlichkeit im Gegensatz zur „Verräumlichung“ eine „authentische“ Dimension zu verleihen – um dabei beim selben Heidegger zu beginnen, den der Autor einer radikalen theoretischen Kritik unterzieht. Diese von Marramao vorgeschlagene philosophische Alternative stellt in ihrer Neuheit einen offenen Bruch mit allen aktuellen Ansätzen zur Thematik des „Nihilismus“ dar. Sie bewegt sich nicht mehr im üblichen Bereich von „Überwindung“ und „Umkehrung“, sondern kann als laterale Verschiebung der Optik gelesen werden, in der die gesamte abendländische philosophische Tradition bisher die „Frage der Zeit“ visualisiert hat.
In his latest book in the study of power, Giacomo Marramao focuses on the work of two great Central European writers, Elias Canetti and Herta Muller, each of whom, in different periods and contexts, offered a philosophical genealogy of forms of domination and a radical diagnosis of power, command and law. To grasp the meaning of the transformations of power, it is necessary to go to the roots: to the arch that originated it as a factor common to all human cultures and all historical periods. Power cannot be suppressed: any attempt to overcome it (by eliminating one or another form of its exercise) has done no more than strengthen it. Power must, however, be uprooted or subverted in its logic of identity, which is activated in the boundless character of desire and the paranoid scene of fear and the death of the Other. In the midst of today s global world, to trace a line of opposition to power means to free ourselves from the alibi of objectivity and to focus instead on subjects and their potential for metamorphosis/regeneration. This is possible only if we detach ourselves from the ground noise of actuality and recover the broken thread of solitary and extreme works."
