{"product_id":"a-politics-of-emancipation-the-miguel-abensour-reader-9781438498249","title":"A Politics of Emancipation: The Miguel Abensour Reader","description":"Despite his influence in utopian studies and democratic theory, French philosopher Miguel Abensour (1939-2017) has yet to be fully discovered in the English-speaking world as only a fraction of his work has been translated. \u003ci\u003eA Politics of Emancipation\u003c\/i\u003e fills this void by translating a selection of his seminal essays into English for the first time. The \u003ci\u003eReader\u003c\/i\u003e provides a systematic overview of Abensour's work and the two inseparable projects that govern his approach to political theory: on the one hand, a radical critique of all forms of domination and, on the other, a desire to conceptualize the political as the realm of freedom and emancipation. For Abensour, both projects are to be undertaken together in order to avoid the double trap of an evacuation of conflict from politics and the reduction of politics to a form of domination. In other words, a politics of emancipation requires a \"ruthless\" critique of domination coupled with an analysis of politics as the domain within which human beings experience freedom and equality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMartin Breaugh\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Political Theory at York University. He is the author of\u003ci\u003e The Plebeian Experience: A Discontinuous History of Political Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003ePaul Mazzocchi\u003c\/b\u003e is Adjunct Professor at York University. Together they are coeditors (with Christopher Holman, Rachel Magnusson, and Devin Penner) of \u003ci\u003eThinking Radical Democracy: The Return to Politics in Post-War France\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50901086699794,"sku":"9781438498249","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fde88ee2-9b4f-4cd9-b3fa-93c2fa115ac7.jpg?v=1738411693","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-politics-of-emancipation-the-miguel-abensour-reader-9781438498249","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}