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Michel Foucault and the politics of freedom
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ISBN: 0803938659 0803938640 9780803938649 9780803938656 9780742521391 Year: 1996 Volume: 9 Publisher: Thousand Oaks, Calif. London New Delhi Sage Publications


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Loneliness as a way of life
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ISBN: 0674034376 9780674034372 067403113X 9780674031135 Year: 2008 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press

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"What does it mean to be lonely?" Dumm asks. His inquiry, documented in this book, takes us beyond social circumstances and into the deeper forces that shape our very existence as modern individuals. The modern individual, Dumm suggests, is fundamentally a lonely self. This book challenges us, not to overcome our loneliness, but to learn how to re-inhabit it in a better way.


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My father's house : on Will Barnet's paintings
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ISBN: 0822355582 0822377284 Year: 2014 Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press,

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In My Father's House, the political philosopher Thomas Dumm explores a series of stark and melancholy paintings by the American artist Will Barnet. Responding to the physical and mental decline of his sister Eva, who lived alone in the family home in Beverly, Massachusetts, Barnet began work in 1990 on what became a series of nine paintings depicting Eva and other family members, as they once were and as they figured in the artist's memory. Rendered in Barnet's signature quiet, abstract style, the paintings, each featured in full color, present the ordinary and extraordinary aspects of a twent


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A politics of the ordinary
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ISBN: 0585326282 0814745237 Year: 1999 Publisher: New York : Baltimore, Md. : New York Univ. Press, Project MUSE,

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In A Politics of the Ordinary, Thomas Dumm dramatizes how everyday life in the United States intersects with and is influenced by the power of events, on the one hand, and forces of conformity and normalcy on the other. Combining poststructuralist analysis with a sympathetic reading of a strain of American thought that begins with Emerson and culminates in the work of Stanley Cavell, A Politics of the Ordinary investigates incidents from everyday life, political spectacles, and popular culture. Whether juxtaposing reflections about boredom in rural New Mexico with Emerson's theory of constitutional amendment, Richard Nixon's letter of resignation with Thoreau's writings to overcome quiet desperation, or demonstrating how Disney's Toy Story allegorizes the downsizing of the American white-collar work force, Dumm's constant concern is to show how the ordinary is the primary source of the democratic political imagination.

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ISBN: 0801481902 Year: 1994 Publisher: Ithaca (N.Y.): Cornell university press

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A Politics of the Ordinary
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ISBN: 9780814745236 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York, NY

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Michel Foucault and the politics of freedom.
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ISBN: 0742521397 0742521389 9780742521384 9780742521391 0803938659 9780803938656 Year: 2002 Publisher: Totowa Rowman & Littlefield


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Performances of violence
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ISBN: 161376040X 9781613760406 9781558498570 1558498575 9781558498563 1558498567 Year: 2011 Publisher: Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : University of Massachusetts Press,

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Violence.


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Crediting God : Sovereignty and Religion in the Age of Global Capitalism

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Tocqueville suggested that "the people reign in the American political world like God over the universe.” This intuition anticipates the crisis in the secularization paradigm that has brought theology back as a fundamental part of sociological and political analysis. It has become more difficult to believe that humanity’s progress necessarily leads to atheism, or that it is possible to translate all that is good about religion into reasonable terms acceptable in principle by all, believers as well as nonbelievers. And yet, the spread of Enlightenment values, of an independent public sphere, and of alternative “projects of modernity” continues unabated and is by no means the antithesis of the renewed vigor of religious beliefs. The essays in this book shed interdisciplinary and multicultural light on a hypothesis that helps to account for such an unexpected convergence of enlightenment and religion in our times: Religion has reentered the public sphere because it puts into question the relation between God and the concept of political sovereignty. In the first part, “Religion and Polity-Building,” new perspectives are brought to bear on the tension-ridden connection between theophany and state-building from the perspective of world religions. Globalized, neo-liberal capitalism has been another crucial factor in loosening the bond between God and the state, as the essays in the second part, “The End of the Saeculum and Global Capitalism,” show. The essays in the third part, “Questioning Sovereignty: Law and Justice,” are dedicated to a critique of the premises of political theology, starting from the possibility of a prior, perhaps deeper relation between democracy and theocracy. The book concludes with three innovative essays dedicated to examining Tocqueville in order to think the “Religion of Democracy” beyond the idea of civil religion.

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