Politics, Volume 1 - False Necessity subject-anthropology-sociology Fin de Siecle Social Theory

Fin de Siecle Social Theory is a tonic intervention in contemporary debates

Showing how the story of Cahiers continues to resonate with critics

and the enacting of legislation to suspend civilian law

later known as Lenin

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Politics, Volume 1 - False Necessity subject-anthropology-sociology Fin de Siecle Social TheoryFalse necessity is the central work in the three volume series Politics. It presents both a way of explaining society and a program for changing it. The explanation develops a radical alternative to Marxism, showing how we can account for established social arrangements without denying their contingency or our freedom. The program offers a progressive alternative to the now dominant ideological conceptions of neoliberalism and social democracy: a set