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The Age of Violence: The Crisis of Political Action and the End of Utopia
Taschenbuch von Alain Bertho
Sprache: Englisch

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"Only martyrs know neither pity nor fear. Believe me, the day when the martyrs are victorious will be the day of universal conflagration". Jacques Lacan made this gloomy prophesy back in 1959: but doesn’t it also apply to our own time? Faced with a rise in attacks around the world, can we really just blame the ‘radicalization of’ Islam’? What hope is there for the alienated youth, as the wars that have ravaged the Middle East spill out across the globe?

For Alain Bertho, the mounting chaos we see today is above all driven by the weakening of states’ legitimacy under the pressure of globalization. Add to this the hypocrisy of the elites who beat the drum of 'security measures', even as they sow the seeds of violence around the world. This disorder is the swamp of despair which can only produce fresh atrocities.

Today’s youth are the lost children of neoliberal globalization, the inheritors of the political and human chaos it produces. When they find it easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism, their revolt tends to take the paths of martyrdom and despair. The closing of the revolutionary hypothesis allows only fury. The answer, Bertho argues, is a new radicalism, able to inspire a collective hope in the future.
"Only martyrs know neither pity nor fear. Believe me, the day when the martyrs are victorious will be the day of universal conflagration". Jacques Lacan made this gloomy prophesy back in 1959: but doesn’t it also apply to our own time? Faced with a rise in attacks around the world, can we really just blame the ‘radicalization of’ Islam’? What hope is there for the alienated youth, as the wars that have ravaged the Middle East spill out across the globe?

For Alain Bertho, the mounting chaos we see today is above all driven by the weakening of states’ legitimacy under the pressure of globalization. Add to this the hypocrisy of the elites who beat the drum of 'security measures', even as they sow the seeds of violence around the world. This disorder is the swamp of despair which can only produce fresh atrocities.

Today’s youth are the lost children of neoliberal globalization, the inheritors of the political and human chaos it produces. When they find it easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism, their revolt tends to take the paths of martyrdom and despair. The closing of the revolutionary hypothesis allows only fury. The answer, Bertho argues, is a new radicalism, able to inspire a collective hope in the future.
Über den Autor
Alain Bertho
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 144
ISBN-13: 9781786637475
ISBN-10: 1786637472
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Bertho, Alain
Hersteller: Verso
Maße: 208 x 137 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Alain Bertho
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.10.2018
Gewicht: 0,177 kg
preigu-id: 123795247
Über den Autor
Alain Bertho
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 144
ISBN-13: 9781786637475
ISBN-10: 1786637472
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Bertho, Alain
Hersteller: Verso
Maße: 208 x 137 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Alain Bertho
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.10.2018
Gewicht: 0,177 kg
preigu-id: 123795247
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