Metapolitics
In today's article we are going to talk about Metapolitics, a topic that has undoubtedly generated interest and controversy in recent times. Metapolitics is a topic that has captured the attention of experts and the general public, since it impacts different aspects of our daily lives. Throughout this article, we will explore the different facets of Metapolitics, from its history and evolution to its impact on today's society. Additionally, we will examine possible solutions and alternatives to address the challenges associated with Metapolitics. Lastly, we will look at how Metapolitics has influenced the world today and what we can expect in the future.
Metapolitics (sometimes written meta-politics) is metalinguistic talk about politics; a political dialogue about politics itself. In this mode, metapolitics takes on various forms of inquiry, appropriating to itself another way toward the discourse of politics and the political. It assumes a self-conscious role of mediating the analytic, synthetic, and normative language of political inquiry and politics itself.
Contemporary views
By ‘metapolitics’ I mean whatever consequences a philosophy is capable of drawing, both in and for itself, from real instances of politics as thought. Metapolitics is opposed to political philosophy, which claims that since no such politics exists, it falls to philosophers to think ‘the’ political.
Alain Badiou, April 1998
Two important contemporary thinkers in the field of metapolitics are Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière. Discussing Badiou's Metapolitics, Bruno Bosteels asserts that:
“Badiou argues against the tradition of political philosophy, which he associates with the likes of Hannah Arendt and Claude Lefort, by proposing to think not of ‘the political’ (le politique) but of ‘politics’ (la politique) as an active form of thinking, or thought-practice, in its own right. He then goes on to evaluate the proximity of this proposal for a ‘metapolitical’ orientation to the work of his teacher Louis Althusser and his contemporaries Jacques Rancière and Sylvain Lazarus, before offering case studies on the concepts of democracy, justice and Thermidoreanism.”
See also
References
- ^ Badiou, Alain (2005). Metapolitics. Translated by Jason Barker. London & New York: Verso. pp. xxxix. ISBN 1-84467-035-X.
- ^ Excerpt from: Bosteels, Bruno. Philosophy for Militants. Verso, 2012.
Further reading
- Carlo Gambescia, Metapolitica. L’altro sguardo sul potere, Edizioni Il Foglio Letterario 2009, ISBN 978-8876062476.
- Carlo Gambescia, Trattato di metapolitica, Edizioni Il Foglio, 2023, 2 voll.: - vol. I. Storia, concetti e metodo, ISBN 978-8876069819; - vol. II. Laboratorio storico, ISBN 978-8876069666.
External links
- A. J. Gregor. Metascience and Politics. Dictionary definition
- Peter Viereck, Metapolitics: From Wagner and the German Romantics to Hitler, 2003. ISBN 978-0-7658-0510-2.
- Peter Viereck, Metapolitics Revisited
- Commentary on Alain Badiou's book Metapolitics
- Leo Zaibert, Toward Meta-politics
- Igor Efimov. Metapolitics: our choice and history (in Russian). Leningrad, 1991. 224 pages. ISBN 5-289-01365-2
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