Rockhill Counter-History of the Present

Untimely Interrogations into Globalization, Technology, Democracy
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7288-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 160 Seiten

Gabriel Rockhill examines the widespread understanding that we are living in an era of globalization that is bound by economic and technological networks and an unquestionable faith in democracy, replacing it with a counter-history that accounts for the diversity of lived experience and offers new ways to imagine the future.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rockhill, Gabriel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction. Toward a Counter-History of the Present 1
1. A Specter Is Haunting Globalization 11
2. Are We Really Living in a Technological Era? 33
3. What Is the Use of Democracy? Urgency of an Inappropriate Question 51
Afterword. Taking Charge of the Meanings and Direction of History 103
Notes 109
Bibliography 133
Index 143

Über Autor(innen)

Gabriel Rockhill is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University and the author, editor, and translator of many books, including Jacques Rancière: History, Politics, Aesthetics, also published by Duke University Press, and Interventions in Contemporary Thought: History, Politics, Aesthetics.