The End of Politics?: Explorations into Modern Antipolitics

by Andreas Schedler (Editor)

Since communism collapsed we have witnessed the emergence of numerous political actors - neopopulists, neoliberals, fundamentalists, nationalists, and others - who share one ideological their deep contempt for modern democratic politics. The book asks an old What is politics? And it adds a new one to the agenda of social What is antipolitics? Some authors trace antipolitical traditions in Western political thought, while others analyze the rhetoric of contemporary antipolitical actors in the US, the former Soviet Union, and South America. The book contains contributions from Charles H. Fairbanks Jr, Barry Hindess, Erwin A. Jaffe, Norbert Lechner, Jose Nun, Louis Pauly, Andreas Schedler, and Gershon Weiler.

191 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1996