Towards a Post-Modern Understanding of the Political

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Towards a Post-Modern Understanding of the Political is written by A. Bielskis and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0230508340 (ISBN 10) and 9780230508347 (ISBN 13).

While claiming that liberalism is the dominant political theory and practice of modernity, this book provides two alternative post-modern theoretical approaches to the political. Concentrating on Nietzsche's and Foucault's work it offers a novel interpretation of their genealogical projects. It argues that genealogy can be applied to analyze different forms of cultural kitsch vis-à-vis the dominant political institutions of consumer capitalism. The problem with consumer capitalism is not so much that it exploits individuals, but that it fosters cheap human existence saturated with the artefacts of kitsch. Contrasting genealogy with hermeneutic philosophy, it calls for a renewal of hermeneutics within the Thomistic tradition.