Arts of the Political: New Openings for the Left

Nigel Thrift; Ash Amin

Published by Duke University Press 2013

Arts of the Political

New Openings for the Left

Nigel Thrift and Ash Amin

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822399056

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About this book

Seeking to reinvigorate the political Left, Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift advocate an experimental "world-making" politics that is able to adapt to changing circumstances, shifting categories, and emergent problems.

Author / Editor information

Ash Amin is Professor of Geography at Cambridge University. He is the author of Land of Strangers and coauthor (with Patrick Cohendet) of Architectures of Knowledge: Firms, Capabilities, and Communities.

Nigel Thrift is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick. He is the author of Non-Representational Theory: Space, Politics, Affect and Knowing Capitalism. Amin and Thrift are the authors of Cities: Reimagining the Urban.

Reviews

“This is a fine and rousing book, and required reading for Messrs Miliband and Cruddas. What its heroic authors say is true, timely and damned difficult. But to outface the monster of corporate capitalism, protean, international but nonetheless fissiparous, often cowardly, always corrupt, Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift have contrived this novel and vigorous weapon of dissent, so much required to fight the rough beast of a new epoch now slouching towards Wall Street to be born."

-- Fred Inglis Times Higher Education

“This book makes a much-needed attempt to revamp the Left’s struggle to ‘voice a politics of social equality and justice’. Problematizing the Left’s ongoing failure to capture and cohere people’s aspirations, to organize politically and to secure achievements, they focus on an essential and, as they rightly claim, neglected aspect of Left politics: the art of doing politics."

-- Jessica Schmidt Radical Philosophy

"This book is about what the Left should be proud of, what it can do to recapture the imagination of peoples to energize them into social action, and what horizons lay ahead in terms of actionable strategies. . . . [M]any of us interested in tipping the scales of justice on the side of integrity and dignity should be reading this wonderful and very useful book.”

-- Eduardo Mendieta City

"The authors of this provocative and insightful book promote an attitude of innovation and experimentation as a means to revive the fortunes of the western Left."

-- James Martin European Political Science

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Prologue Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
1. The Grounds Of Politics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Leftist Beginnings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
3. Reinventing The Political Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
4. Contemporary Leftist Thought Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
5. Organizing Politics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
6. Eurocracy And Its Publics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
7. Affective Politics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
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Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 256
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- Other: 2 tables

eBook

Published: March 22, 2013
ISBN: 9780822399056