The Book of Politics (China in Theory)
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Product Details
Author:
Michael Dutton
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
440
Publisher:
Duke University Press (October 18, 2024)
Imprint:
Duke University Press
Language:
English
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13:
9781478030195
ISBN-10:
1478030194
Weight:
24.8oz
Dimensions:
6" x 9"
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List Price:
$31.95
Country of Origin:
United States
Series:
Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
Case Pack:
16
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$24.60
Publisher Identifier:
P-PER
Discount Code:
A
Pub Discount:
46
Overview
In The Book of Politics, Michael Dutton offers an affective theorization of the political and a political theorization of affect. Drawing on Western and Chinese social theory and practice, Dutton rethinks Carl Schmitt’s insistence that the political can be thought of only within the antagonistic pairing of friend and enemy. Dutton shows how the power of the friend/enemy binary must be understood by conceptualizing the political as the channeling, harnessing, and transforming of affective energy flows in relation to that binary. Given this affective nature of politics, Dutton contends that to rethink the political means moving away from a political science toward an art of the political. Such an art highlights fluidity and pulls away from Eurocentric political theory, requiring a conceptualization of the political as global. He juxtaposes ancient Chinese cosmology, medicine, and Maoism against the monuments of early capitalist modernity such as the Crystal Palace and the Eiffel Tower to highlight the differences in political investments and intensities. From the Chinese revolution to the global rise of right-wing movements, Dutton rethinks politics in the contemporary world.
