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The Virtual Point of Freedom

Essays on Politics, Aesthetics, and Religion

by Lorenzo Chiesa

  • Paperback
  • 160 pages
  • Publisher: Northwestern University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.7 x 1.1 cm

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The principal motif that runs throughout "The Virtual Point of Freedom" is a confrontation with the discourse of freedom, or, more specifically, the falsely transgressive ideal of a total emancipation that would know no constraints. Far from delineating a supposed subject of freedom that would allegedly overcome alienation once and for all, the seven chapters in Chiesa s book seek to unfold an innovative reading of the dialectical coincidence between dis-alienation and re-alienation in politics, aesthetics, and religion, using psychoanalysis as a privileged critical tool. Topics include Pier Paolo Pasolini s attack on the visual and biological degeneration of bodies brought about by pleasure-seeking liberal consumerism, Giorgio Agamben s and Slavoj i ek s conflicting negotiations with the Christian tradition of poverty and inappropriateness as potential redemption, and Alain Badiou s inability to develop a philosophical anthropology that could sustain a coherent politics of emancipation. The book concludes by sketching out the figure of the partisan, a subject who makes it possible to conceive of an intersection between provisional morality and radical politics."
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  • Author

    Lorenzo Chiesa

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Northwestern University Press

  • Published

    September 2016

  • Weight

    232g

  • Page Count

    160

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.7 x 1.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780810133730

  • ISBN-10

    0810133733

  • Eden Code

    4451085

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