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The ethics of postcommunism : history and social praxis in Russia / Sergei Prozorov.

By:

Prozorov, Sergei [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009Description: xiii, 266 pages ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

023022413X
9780230224131

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

947.08 22

LOC classification:

HN530.2.A8 P769 2009

Contents:

1. Universal Post-Communism: Kojeve and Agamben on the End of History -- 2. A Time Like No Other: Russian Politics after the End of History -- 3. The Janitor Generation: The Ethics of Disengagement in the Late-Soviet Period -- 4. From a Shining Void: The Dialectic of Bespredel in Post-Communist Social Praxis -- 5. The Invisible Victory: Experimentum Linguae and the Appropriation of Anomie.

Summary: "The Ethics of Postcommunism offers a radical reinterpretation of contemporary Russian politics in terms of Giorgio Agamben's political philosophy. Reconstructing Agamben's conception of the end of history that challenges the well-known Hegelian thesis, Prozorov approaches post-communist Russia as a post-historical terrain, in which the teleological dimension of politics has been deactivated. Tracing the suspension of the historical dialectic from the late-soviet period to the Medvedev presidency, the author develops a paradigm of 'inoperative' social praxis proper to the post-communist condition."--Publisher's website.

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Discography: p. 253-254.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-262) and index.

Includes discography.

"The Ethics of Postcommunism offers a radical reinterpretation of contemporary Russian politics in terms of Giorgio Agamben's political philosophy. Reconstructing Agamben's conception of the end of history that challenges the well-known Hegelian thesis, Prozorov approaches post-communist Russia as a post-historical terrain, in which the teleological dimension of politics has been deactivated. Tracing the suspension of the historical dialectic from the late-soviet period to the Medvedev presidency, the author develops a paradigm of 'inoperative' social praxis proper to the post-communist condition."--Publisher's website.

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