Towards an Improper Politics - Softcover

Devenney, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1474454046 ISBN 13: 9781474454049

Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2021

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This book systematically introduces the idea of an improper politics. Introducing a conceptual vocabulary, it engages with the politics of the proper, propriety and property from a post-foundational perspective. Mark Devenney argues that this triad is central to understanding the maintenance of global inequality, both economic and political. He characterises democratic politics as improper, challenging the proper bounds of reason, accepted behaviours, and the policing of proper order. The conceptualisation of democracy as an improper practice of equality accords a dignity to forms of politics often deemed marginal.

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Mark Devenney is Principal Lecturer in Politics and Philosophy and Co-Director of the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics at the University of Brighton.

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Argues that democratic politics is improper, in enacting equality against property and proprietyThis book systematically introduces the idea of an improper politics. It contributes a conceptual vocabulary that engages with the politics of the proper, propriety and property from a post-foundational perspective. The author argues that this triad is central to understanding the maintenance of global inequality, both economic and political. The book characterises democratic politics as improper, challenging the proper bounds of reason, accepted behaviours, and the policing of proper order. The conceptualisation of democracy as an improper practice of equality accords a dignity to forms of politics often deemed marginal.• Characterises democratic politics as improper against the dominant view of democracy as a regime;• Shows that questions of property, inequality and impropriety are central to post-Marxist thought and politics;• Frames conceptual arguments within specific examples of political interventions from around the globe, including the politics of a brick and of occupations;• Rethinks hegemony in terms of proprietary order thus rethinking the links between culture, economy and polity.Mark Devenney is Principal Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Co-Director of the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics at the University of Brighton.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1474454046
• ISBN 13: 9781474454049
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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