Raffaele Laudani

Disobedience in Western Political Thought (eBook, ePUB)

A Genealogy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The global age is distinguished by disobedience, from the protests in Tiananmen Square to the fall of the Berlin Wall, to the anti-G8 and anti-WTO demonstrations. In this book, Raffaele Laudani offers a systematic review of how disobedience has been conceptualised, supported, and criticised throughout history. Laudani documents the appearance of 'disobedience' in the political lexicon from ancient times to the present, and explains the word's manifestations, showing how its semantic wealth transcended its liberal interpretations in the 1960s and 1970s. Disobedience, Laudani finds, is not merely an alternative to revolution and rebellion, but a different way of conceiving radical politics, one based on withdrawal of consent and defection in relation to the established order.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107241404
• Artikelnr.: 40124483

Autorenporträt

Raffaele Laudani is a lecturer in the Department of History and Human Cultures at the University of Bologna.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Adam Sitze
Introduction
1. Before disobedience: antiquity and the Middle Ages
2. The modernity of disobedience
3. Disobedience in the age of revolutions
4. When disobedience is 'civil'
5. Disobedience in the crisis of sovereignty.

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Foreword Adam Sitze; Introduction; 1. Before disobedience: antiquity and the Middle Ages; 2. The modernity of disobedience; 3. Disobedience in the age of revolutions; 4. When disobedience is 'civil'; 5. Disobedience in the crisis of sovereignty.

Rezensionen

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