hello mike

don't they send you copies of books in the series (admittedly not many)? i know ben's book isn't in the series but it prompted the thought in me.

cheers

jeremy


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Hi Anna,
  I'm glad that you're publicizing the book. Do I get a copy, inasmuch as I am one of teh endorsements on the back?

M J Shapiro
Dept of POlitical Science
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI 96822
USA

Thanks,  Mike

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From: Anna Glazier <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 12:45 am
Subject: Politics on the Edges of Liberalism
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> New from Edinburgh University Press
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> Politics on the Edges of Liberalism
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> Difference, Populism, Revolution, Agitation
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> By Benjamin Arditi
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> 'At the cutting edge of contemporary theory.'
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> Terrell Carver, University of Bristol
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> 'In the best sense of political philosophy as understood by Gilles 
> Deleuze . Arditi invents new concepts . he has the extraordinary 
> ability to achieve clarity while dealing with very arcane and 
> sophisticated aspects of political thought.' 
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> Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawaii
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> 'Arditi navigates skilfully between Continental philosophy and 
> political theory by critically engaging with major figures from 
> both fields. His approach is thoughtful and provocative... On 
> populism, in particular, he is brilliant. This book is essential 
> reading for those who are interested in democracy, emancipatory 
> politics, radical alternatives, and critical thinking. It is 
> political theory at its best.'
> 
> Andreas Kalyvas, The New School for Social Research
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> 'Politics on the edges of liberalism' refers to a grey zone where 
> phenomena such as difference, populism, revolution and agitation 
> turn the distinction between the inside and the outside of 
> liberalism into a matter of dispute. The edges are the internal 
> periphery of liberalism.
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> Each chapter takes on one of these phenomena, discussing the 
> intellectual background animating the politics of the culture wars 
> and its celebration of particularism over the universalism of 
> classical liberal thought. Populism becomes a spectral recurrence 
> rather than an outside of democracy. Agitation reappears in 
> emancipatory politics, and the idea of revolution is thought 
> through outside the Jacobin view of insurrection, overthrow and 
> total re-foundation.
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> This is truly trans-disciplinary inquiry at the cutting edge of 
> contemporary debates in politics, critical theory, philosophy and 
> sociology. The author draws from an impressive range of thinkers 
> such as Kant, Benjamin, Derrida, Freud, Schmitt, Rancière, 
> Gramsci, Canovan, Oakeshott, Foucault, Vattimo, Laclau and Zizek. 
> Despite the complexity of his reasoning, he writes with the reader 
> in mind, presenting his ideas clearly and persuasively and drawing 
> on examples from recent political history to illuminate his arguments.
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> Benjamin Arditi is Professor of Political Theory at the National 
> University of Mexico. He is the author of Polemicization (EUP, 
> 1999) and editor of Fidelity to the Disagreement: Jacques Ranciere 
> and Politics (forthcoming 2007). He is co-editor (with Jeremy 
> Valentine) of Edinburgh University Press's 'Taking on the 
> Political' series.
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> To view the Table of Contents or to purchase your copy at 15% 
> discount visit 
> http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/edition_details.aspx?id=12529. 
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> To download a sample chapter of Politics on the Edges of 
> Liberalism please visit 
> http://arditi.googlepages.com/politics_on_the_edges.
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> Published by Edinburgh University Press <http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/> 
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> 176pp
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> Hb 978 0 7486 2511 6   £40.00
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