The Unpolitical by Massimo Cacciari, Alessandro Carrera, Mass... - 9780823230037

The UnpoliticalOn the Radical Critique of Political Reason\nAuthor(s): Massimo Cacciari, Alessandro Carrera, Massimo Verdicchio\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9780823230037, 978-0823230037\nSynopsis\nMassimo Cacciari is one of the leading public intellectuals in today's Italy, both as an outstanding philosopher and political thinker and as now three times (and currently) the mayor of Venice. This collection of essays on political topics provides the best introduction in English to his thought to date. The political focus does not, however, prevent these essays from being an introduction to the full range of Cacciari's thought.\n The present collection includes chapters on Hofmannstahl, Lukcs, Benjamin, Nietzsche, Weber, Derrida, Schmitt, Canetti, and Aeschylus. Written between 1978 and 2006, these essays engagingly address the most hidden tradition in European political thought: the Unpolitical. Far f.