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Politikasına katılmakla birlikte düşünsen içeriği çok derin olmayan bir kitap.
Very interesting discussion of Rousseau and the role of the civic religion, but mostly this reminds me of what is worst about modern academic writing. I'm just not prepared to invest the time to understand the jargon anymore.
Great resource for thinking about the intersections between politics, faith and violence. See myself returning to it soon for a second reading after the first impression of Critchley's argument sinks in. Finally, Critchley really is one of the best close readers of text around. Particularly liked his treatment of Rousseau - fresh thoughts on a subject like social contract theory are always good! In all, It's really a deeply hopeful and inspiring book and the are moments where his argument fully
First third of book addresses the theme of "faith" directly. This faith is not attached to a metaphysical God but to a civil religion.. to politics. Critchley recasts "modernization" from a process resulting in an increasingly secular society to one in which the sacred remains central but is redefined. Oscar Wilde, Rousseau, and St. Paul feature in this argument. I was completely lost in much of it. I expected an easier go of it , and perhaps the false start through me off. Critchley writes very...
Explores interesting concepts that provoke a lot of thought, but ultimately does not have much of a prescription of how to avoid authoritarianism. Makes a lot of references to his ethical system laid out in Infinitely Demanding, reading it shortly to see if these hurdles can be overcome by that work.
Critchley's engagement with Rousseau is the highlight of the book, and his penetrating and perhaps exhaustive look at faith is worth the price of admission. As usual, the sparring between him and Zizek is quite spirited. The final 20 or so pages really gives a clear look at Critchley's conception of resistance, and it ties the book to a close nicely.
Highly readable given the complexity of ideas being covered -- chapters on "mystical anarchism" and Paul/Heidegger especially interesting
Critchley brings his anarchist ("infinitely demanding") ethics to a next step. His engagements with Rousseau, Schmitt, Heidegger, Agamben, and Žižek are fantastic, even if his argument is a bit underwhelming.
I don't read a lot of philosophy. So I jumped to the final chapter on the question of violence/nonviolence. Although much of it seemed to be a return to an ongoing argument with Zizek, he draws from others (Fanon, Benjamin, anarchists) to situate essential questions (where is it justified, where is it effective or necessary) in historical context - the place it matters most. As he points out, in the colonized world (citing Fanon) violence equates with expropriation, "whose effects constitute the...
mystical anarchism, indeed.
Excellent exploration of the meaning of faith, and of the difficulty of acting responsibly (among other things).
I actually enjoyed this book; I usually cannot get the point of radical philosophical writings, but this book clarified many different points for me. Now I can easily say that I know how anarchism can make sense (It still doesn't, it has the potentiality of making sense though!). The first two chapters (on Rouseau and Schmitt) are fantastic but then it gets too messy to understand. Although it took a long time for me to finish this book, I still think it was worth reading.
A fascinating exploration of how faith mysticism and love can contribute to the growth of an anarchism that works through economies of violence to promote the emergence of new political identities from the interstitial spaces around state power and politics.
Начало, про гражданский катехизис Руссо, довольно увлекательное, но с какого-то момента книга начинает напоминать шизофазию / сцены из фильма Вуди Аллена "Любовь и смерть" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5cQc...Главное, невозможно понять, как именно автор понимает свою задачу: анализ, проповедь, публицистика, наставление, просто неймдроппинг.
The infinite ethical demand allows us to become the subjects of which we are capable of being by dividing us from ourselves, by forcing us to lie in accordance with an asymmetrical and unfulfilable demand – say the demand to be Christ-like – whilst knowing that we are all too human.Likely the best philosophical primer I’ve encountered in a while. Someone noted (here on GR?) that Žižek is more of an associative thinker, rather than a representative one. One likely won't this author guilty of said...
ZOMG, PUTS ŽIŽEK ON THE COUCH, OMGWTFBBQ?!?!?!Seriously, a good load of excellent work has been placed into this one. I've almost turned out surprised, how many of my concerns with Infinitely demanding have been explored at detail in here: which exactly concerns the relationship of politics and religion with respect to the politics of the undeterminable. In any case, provides a lot of valuable discussions on Rousseau and the theological origins of the idea of social contract, a reading of contem...
A great read. Lucid, compelling and well-written analysis of the intersection between religion, politics, and violence.
A solid 3.5 stars that I'll round up because Critchley is more or less on the team.I don't completely agree with the conclusion of a turning to love as a concept that can help us out of the mess, but I think there is lots of insight that can be gained from his hermeneutics and reflection on continental philosophers. There's a little bit of an over-reliance on "classic"/pre-1940s anarchist thinkers (Bakunin mostly), but they're still sort of represented faithfully. Actually, the most enjoyable pa...
