TY  - BOOK
AU  - Prozorov,Sergei
TI  - The ethics of postcommunism: history and social praxis in Russia 
SN  - 023022413X
AV  - HN530.2.A8 P769 2009
U1  - 947.08 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Post-communism
KW  - Russia (Federation)
KW  - Political ethics
KW  - Social ethics
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1991-
KW  - Social conditions
N1  - Discography: p. 253-254; Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-262) and index; Includes discography; 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
N2  - "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
ER  -