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Achille Mbembe is one of the most brilliant theorists of postcolonial studies writing today. In On the Post-colony he profoundly renews our understanding of power and subjectivity in Africa. In a series of provocative essays, Mbembe contests diehard Africanist and nativist perspectives as well as some of the key assumptions of postcolonial theory. This thought-provoking and groundbreaking collection of essays-his first book to be published in English-develops and extends debates first ignited by his well-known 1992 article "Provisional Notes on the Post-colony," in which he developed his notion of the "banality of power" in contemporary Africa. Mbembe reinterprets the meanings of death, utopia, and the divine libido as part of the new theoretical perspectives he offers on the constitution of power. He works with the complex registers of bodily subjectivity - violence, wonder, and laughter - to profoundly contest categories of oppression and resistance, autonomy and subjection, and state and civil society that marked the social theory of the late twentieth century. This provocative book will surely attract attention with its signal contribution to the rich interdisciplinary arena of scholarship on colonial and postcolonial discourse, history, anthropology, philosophy, political science, psychoanalysis, and literary criticism.

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The Making of Modern Liberalism is a deep and wide-ranging exploration of the origins and nature of liberalism from the Enlightenment through its triumphs and setbacks in the twentieth century and beyond. The book is the fruit of the more than four decades during which Alan Ryan, one of the world's leading political thinkers, reflected on the past of the liberal tradition-and worried about its future.This is essential reading for anyone interested in political theory or the history of liberalism.

Liberalism --- Libéralisme (philosophie) --- History. --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- History --- Libéralisme (philosophie) --- Alexander Herzen. --- Alexis de Tocqueville. --- Autobiography. --- Bertrand Russell. --- East India Company. --- Enlightenment. --- Hannah Arendt. --- India. --- Isaiah Berlin. --- Jean-Jacques Rousseau. --- John Locke. --- John Rawls. --- John Stuart Mill. --- Joseph de Maistre. --- Karl Popper. --- L. T. Hobhouse. --- Leviathan. --- Marxism. --- Niccolo Machiavelli. --- On Liberty. --- Samuel Taylor Coleridge. --- T. H. Green. --- The Subjection of Women. --- Thomas Hobbes. --- Vietnam War. --- Whig Revolution. --- World War II. --- absolutism. --- adjectival freedom. --- administration. --- administrative reform. --- adverbial freedom. --- anti-Americanism. --- anti-imperialism. --- atomism. --- authority. --- autonomy. --- brutalization. --- bureaucracy. --- capitalism. --- civil service. --- coercion. --- communitarianism. --- community. --- criminal justice system. --- culture. --- death penalty. --- democracy. --- disenchantment. --- empire. --- epistemological antiauthoritarianism. --- equality. --- ethics. --- fairness. --- free will. --- freedom of speech. --- freedom. --- government. --- human nature. --- human rights. --- incarceration. --- individualism. --- individuality. --- inner life. --- intervention. --- justice. --- law of nature. --- legitimacy. --- liberal anxieties. --- liberal community. --- liberal education. --- liberal imperialism. --- liberal interventionism. --- liberalism. --- libertarianism. --- liberty. --- marriage. --- mechanical materialism. --- meritocracy. --- moral authority. --- natural rights. --- natural theology. --- obligation. --- opinion. --- ordinary language philosophy. --- ordinary warfare. --- pacifism. --- participatory democracy. --- passivity. --- patriotism. --- philosophical engineering. --- philosophy. --- physics. --- physiology. --- pluralism. --- poetry. --- political liberalism. --- political obligation. --- political philosophy. --- political theory. --- politics. --- progress. --- property. --- psychology. --- punishment. --- rationality of science. --- red terror. --- religion. --- religious authority. --- religious belief. --- religious dissent. --- republicanism. --- rights. --- romantic conservatism. --- science. --- self-assertion. --- self-maintenance. --- self-preservation. --- self-realization. --- self-sufficiency. --- social identity. --- state. --- terror. --- terrorism. --- terrorist states. --- toleration. --- utilitarianism. --- utility. --- violence. --- welfare state. --- white terror.

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The Making of Modern Liberalism is a deep and wide-ranging exploration of the origins and nature of liberalism from the Enlightenment through its triumphs and setbacks in the twentieth century and beyond. The book is the fruit of the more than four decades during which Alan Ryan, one of the world's leading political thinkers, reflected on the past of the liberal tradition-and worried about its future.This is essential reading for anyone interested in political theory or the history of liberalism.

Liberalism --- History. --- Alexander Herzen. --- Alexis de Tocqueville. --- Autobiography. --- Bertrand Russell. --- East India Company. --- Enlightenment. --- Hannah Arendt. --- India. --- Isaiah Berlin. --- Jean-Jacques Rousseau. --- John Locke. --- John Rawls. --- John Stuart Mill. --- Joseph de Maistre. --- Karl Popper. --- L. T. Hobhouse. --- Leviathan. --- Marxism. --- Niccolo Machiavelli. --- On Liberty. --- Samuel Taylor Coleridge. --- T. H. Green. --- The Subjection of Women. --- Thomas Hobbes. --- Vietnam War. --- Whig Revolution. --- World War II. --- absolutism. --- adjectival freedom. --- administration. --- administrative reform. --- adverbial freedom. --- anti-Americanism. --- anti-imperialism. --- atomism. --- authority. --- autonomy. --- brutalization. --- bureaucracy. --- capitalism. --- civil service. --- coercion. --- communitarianism. --- community. --- criminal justice system. --- culture. --- death penalty. --- democracy. --- disenchantment. --- empire. --- epistemological antiauthoritarianism. --- equality. --- ethics. --- fairness. --- free will. --- freedom of speech. --- freedom. --- government. --- human nature. --- human rights. --- incarceration. --- individualism. --- individuality. --- inner life. --- intervention. --- justice. --- law of nature. --- legitimacy. --- liberal anxieties. --- liberal community. --- liberal education. --- liberal imperialism. --- liberal interventionism. --- liberalism. --- libertarianism. --- liberty. --- marriage. --- mechanical materialism. --- meritocracy. --- moral authority. --- natural rights. --- natural theology. --- obligation. --- opinion. --- ordinary language philosophy. --- ordinary warfare. --- pacifism. --- participatory democracy. --- passivity. --- patriotism. --- philosophical engineering. --- philosophy. --- physics. --- physiology. --- pluralism. --- poetry. --- political liberalism. --- political obligation. --- political philosophy. --- political theory. --- politics. --- progress. --- property. --- psychology. --- punishment. --- rationality of science. --- red terror. --- religion. --- religious authority. --- religious belief. --- religious dissent. --- republicanism. --- rights. --- romantic conservatism. --- science. --- self-assertion. --- self-maintenance. --- self-preservation. --- self-realization. --- self-sufficiency. --- social identity. --- state. --- terror. --- terrorism. --- terrorist states. --- toleration. --- utilitarianism. --- utility. --- violence. --- welfare state. --- white terror.