Untimely politics
"Challenging the linear view of history which confines or predetermines the outcome of politics, this book argues for an 'untimely' politics, rendering the past problematic and the future unpredictable. Untimely Politics offers close readings of key texts in political theory and enters into debates involving metaphysics, philosophy of language, and psychoanalysis versus discursive analysis - all designed to demonstrate that untimeliness expands the scope of the political." "The ideas are woven together around the theme of the relevance of language analysis to political debate, answering those critics who insist that discourse approaches to politics are irrelevant. Calling on key texts of Heidegger, Nietzsche, Foucault and Derrida, the book challenges the political burden which is placed on language analysis to prove its value in the real world. To demonstrate his arguments, Samuel A. Chambers uses the case study of same-sex marriage in the US to interrogate family-values politics." "In seeking to explore the relevance of contemporary theory on practical political life, this book makes a timely plea for a more politically relevant form of intellectual work."--BOOK JACKET
ix, 196 pages ; 24 cm.
9780814716410, 0814716415
52334721
'Time is out of joint'
Language and the 'burden' of politics
Experiencing language, broaching untimeliness
Spectral history, untimely theory
Untimely reading : Foucaults' evasive maneuvers
Untimely agency : having the historical sense to 'bypass' psychoanalytic theory
The untimely politics of DOMA