ENG / RUS
140x215 (60x90/16) hard cover, ill., 544 pp., 2011
ISBN 978-5-86793-890-1
World rights available
Artemy Magun's book is both a textbook on political philosophy and a thesis about the essence of politics. It includes the most significant political doctrines of modern times in their historical context – from Machiavelli to Marx – and discusses the fundamental understandings, attitudes and arguments of the epoch.
Magun analyses philosophical works with all possible objectivity and distance, but he also develops his own position through the course of the book. He dedicates a separate chapter to discussions on the dialectic of positive and negative unity. The entire book is concerned with understandings of unity and solitude, as well as a critique of liberalism and considerations of political theology, thinking and history. The reader is introduced to a rich tradition of debate about the unification and disunification of people. The book's goal is to shorten the distance between the political sphere and our daily lives and experiences, showing the intimate the side of the political, which can sometimes seem external and inhuman.
Artemy Magun is a political philosopher, specialist on the 20th century political thought. His sphere of interests: concept of revolution, intellectual heritage of the 1917 revolution, political negativity, ontological and anthropological foundations of politics.
«What is politics from the perspective of the first philosophy, or in other words without any prerequisites or pre-existing knowledge? Here's a quick, rough answer: Politics is the sphere of collective unity. But unity does not occur in nature, and it must be deliberately fomented and maintained, sometimes with force, the law bringing together disunified and egocentric people and groups of people».
