Gamble, Andrew
Politics and Fate
The most characteristic expression of this disenchantment is the endless discourses on endism - the end of history, the end of ideology, the end of the nation-state, the end of authority, the end of government, the end of the public realm, the end of politics itself - all have been proclaimed in recent years.
Andrew Gamble's new book argues against the fatalism implicit in so many of these discourses, as well as against the fatalism that has always been present in many of the central discourses of modernity. It sets out a defence of politics and the political, explains why we cannot do without politics, and probes the complex relationship between politics and fate, and the continuing and necessary tension between them.
This book will be essential reading for students and scholars of politics, public affairs and political thought.
Keywords: politics; activity; control; once; human societies; anything; human; deep; beings; ability; pessimism; least; vast; fatalism; claims; cages; iron; impersonal; new; condition; alternative; society; future; hope; hopes; liberal, General & Introductory Political Science, General & Introductory Political Science
- Author(s)
- Gamble, Andrew
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2000
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Themes for the 21st Century
- Page amount
- 144 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9780745666372
- Printed ISBN
- 9780745621685