Political Spaces and Global War
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Political Spaces and Global War
By (Author) Carlo Galli
Translated by Elisabeth Fay
Edited by Adam Sitze
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
3rd January 2011
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Political science and theory
320
Physical Properties
Paperback
304
Width 140mm, Height 216mm, Spine 23mm
Description
Political theorists have long debated whether globalization marks a novel form of political and economic order or is simply a reconfiguration of older capitalist and imperialist imperatives. Carlo Galli contends that it is neither; rather, globalization is the development, in a new and destructive direction, of the unstable and precarious equilibrium that constituted modern political space from its very inception.
Reviews
"Carlo Gallis Political Spaces and Global War offers an extremely valuable analysis of globalization: its opportunities, its risks, and its antinomies. Galli adopts a historical and conceptual approach to explore the complex relationship between globalization and the political categories of modernity, and arrives at a deeply troubling conclusion about the fate of Western civilization." RobertoEsposito, author of Bios
"Once in a while, a thinker comes along and poses the familiar questions of political theory in a startling new way. Carlo Galli does just that. He relentlessly tracks the political reproduction of space in politics and political theory to show how the modern quest for freedom, equality, democracy, sovereignty, universality and more all turn on a politics of space now effaced by the global war, which despatializes and deinstitutionalizes politics, losing the difference between sky, land, and sea and bringing traditional theaters together in a war without strategy or frontier. With this English translation, new readers will discover Gallis unique voice, illuminated by Adam Sitze, whose useful introduction sets Gallis work in the context of post 1968 Italian politics and theory." Bonnie Honig, author of Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy
Author Bio
Carlo Galli is professor in the Department of Historical Disciplines at the University of Bologna and president of the Gramsci Institute, Emilia-Romagna. He is author of numerous books, most notably Genealogia della politica: Carl Schmitt e la crisi del pensiero politico modemo, reissued in 2010.
Adam Sitze is assistant professor of law, jurisprudence, and social thought at Amherst College.
Elisabeth Fay is completing a PhD in Italian studies at Cornell University. She is the translator of Carlo Galli's "Carl Schmitt and the Global Age."
