In this Book
- Radical Future Pasts: Untimely Political Theory
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: The University Press of Kentucky
Written by both well-established and rising scholars, Radical Future Pasts seeks to open up new possibilities for theoretical inquiries and engagements with practical political struggles. Unlike conventional "state of the discipline" collections, this volume does not summarize the history of political theory. Rather than accept traditional ideas about the political past, the contributors reinterpret canonical and current texts to demonstrate fresh interpretations and narratives.
Led by editors Romand Coles, Mark Reinhardt, and George Shulman, and inspired by the work of Peter Euben, the contributors both explore and exemplify the range and importance of political theory's different genres while concentrating on such themes as time and temporality, the politics of tragedy, and political movements and subjectivities. A groundbreaking volume featuring the best new scholarship in the field, this provocative book will be useful to scholars and students interested in political theory and its relationship to political practice.
Table of Contents
- Radical Future Pasts?
- pp. 1-36
- Part I Theorizing Temporalities
- pp. 37-40
- 1. Untimeliness and Punctuality
- pp. 41-58
- 2. "When the Corn Was Ripe . . ."
- pp. 59-80
- 3. Black Noise in White Time
- pp. 81-112
- 4. The Moment Has Passed
- pp. 113-144
- Part II Theorizing Political Subjectivities
- pp. 145-148
- 5. The Virtual Patriot Syndrome
- pp. 149-178
- 8. Race and the Democratic Aesthetic
- pp. 249-282
- 9. In Praise of Disorder
- pp. 283-316
- Part III Theorizing and Genre
- pp. 317-320
- 10. The Politics of Literature
- pp. 321-332
- 11. Circulating Authority
- pp. 333-350
- 12. Staging Reception
- pp. 351-374
- Part IV Theorizing Tragedy
- pp. 395-398
- 14. Antigone’s Laments, Creon’s Grief
- pp. 399-434
- Contributors
- pp. 513-516