Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon

Adi M. Ophir; Ann Laura Stoler

Published by Fordham University Press 2018

Political Concepts

A Critical Lexicon

Adi M. Ophir and Ann Laura Stoler
Edited by: J. M. Bernstein
With contributions by: Stathis Gourgouris , Gil Anidjar , Ann Laura Stoler , Adi M. Ophir , Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak , Étienne Balibar , J. M. Bernstein , Joan Copjec , Jacques Lezra , Andreas Kalyvas , Jean L. Cohen and Akeel Bilgrami

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823276714

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Essays by major contemporary figures in political philosophy, anthropology, and cultural studies presenting an original reflection on the question what is a particular concept (classic concepts in politics as well as newly politicized concepts) and asking what sort of work a rethinking of that concept can do for us now.

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Bernstein J. M. :

J. M. Bernstein is University Distinguished Professor in Philosophy at The New School for Social Research in New York City.Ophir Adi :

Adi Ophir is Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University and a Visiting Professor at the Cogut Center for the Humanities and the Program for Middle East Studies at Brown University.Stoler Ann Laura :

Ann Laura Stoler is Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at The New School for Social Research where she directs the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry. Her most recent book is Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times (Duke, 2016).Gourgouris Stathis :

Stathis Gourgouris is Professor of Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. His most recent book is The Perils of the One (Columbia, 2019).Anidjar Gil :

Gil Anidjar is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Religion at Columbia
University. He is the author of: Semites: Race, Religion, Literature (2008); The Jew, the Arab: A History of the Enemy (2003); and Our Place in al-Andalus’: Kabbalah, Philosophy, Literature in Arab Jewish Letters (2002)..

Stoler Ann Laura :

Ann Laura Stoler is Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at The New School for Social Research where she directs the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry. Her most recent book is Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times (Duke, 2016).Ophir Adi :

Adi Ophir is Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University and a Visiting Professor at the Cogut Center for the Humanities and the Program for Middle East Studies at Brown University.Balibar Étienne :

Étienne Balibar is Professor Emeritus of Moral and Political Philosophy at Université de Paris X–Nanterre; Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine; and Visiting Professor of French at Columbia University. His many books include Citizen Subject (Fordham, 2016); Equaliberty (Duke, 2014); We, the People of Europe? (Princeton, 2003); The Philosophy of Marx (Verso, new ed. 2017); and two important coauthored books, Race, Nation, Class (with Immanuel Wallerstein, Verso, 1988) and Reading Capital (with Louis Althusser and others, Verso, new ed. 2016).Bernstein J. M. :

J. M. Bernstein is University Distinguished Professor in Philosophy at The New School for Social Research in New York City.Lezra Jacques :

Jacques Lezra is Professor and Chair of Hispanic Studies at the University of California—Riverside. His most recent book is On the Nature of Marx’s Things: Translation as Necrophilology (Fordham, 2018).

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CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
INTRODUCTION. POLITICAL CONCEPTS: A CRITICAL LEXICON Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. ARCHĒ Stathis Gourgouris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	5
2. BLOOD Gil Anidjar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
3. COLONY Ann Laura Stoler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
4. CONCEPT Adi Ophir Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
5. CONSTITUENT POWER Andreas Kalyvas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
6. DEVELOPMENT Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
7. EXPLOITATION Étienne Balibar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
8. FEDERATION Jean L. Cohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
9. IDENTITY Akeel Bilgrami Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
10. THE RULE OF LAW J. M. Bernstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
11. SEXUAL DIFFERENCE Joan Copjec Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
12. TRANSLATION Jacques Lezra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255

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Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
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- Main content: 288
Keywords: concept; politics; lexicon; definition; authority; colony; blood; exploitation; Identity; translation

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Published: January 2, 2018
ISBN: 9780823276714