POLITICAL INVESTIGATIONS, Hegel, Marx, Arendt
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loginIn this fascinating new book Robert Fine recasts three great studies of modernpolitical life: Hegel’s Elements of the Philosophy of Right, Marx’s Capitaland HannahArendt’s Origins of Totalitarianism. The originality of this book lies in its radicalreinterpretation of these individual texts which frees them from their intellectualisolation and reads them together as a living unity. In Fine’s account all threeemerge as formative works of critical theory which succeed in sustaining the greatpromises of modern politics – freedom, equality, solidarity, the new – alongsidethe grubbier reality of domination and violence. They are all revealed as empiricalworks which analyse the actual forms of political modernity, as scientific workswhich link external appearances to internal processes, as dynamic works concernedwith the movement, trajectory and potentiality of politics and as equivocal textswhich not only unmask the illusions of political life but also the illusions ofunmasking itself. Political Investigationsoffers a clear and engaging read for students,academics and all who work and take pleasure in social and political thought. Italso significantly reviews present-day understandings of the relation betweennormative political philosophy and empirically-based social theory.
