Resilient Life
The Art of Living Dangerously
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Beschreibung
What does it mean to live dangerously? This is not just aphilosophical question or an ethical call to reflect upon our ownindividual recklessness. It is a deeply political issue,fundamental to the new doctrine of 'resilience' that isbecoming a key term of art for governing planetary life in the 21stCentury. No longer should we think in terms of evading thepossibility of traumatic experiences. Catastrophic events, we aretold, are not just inevitable but learning experiences from whichwe have to grow and prosper, collectively and individually.Vulnerability to threat, injury and loss has to be accepted as areality of human existence.
In this original and compelling text, Brad Evans and Julian Reidexplore the political and philosophical stakes of the resilienceturn in security and governmental thinking. Resilience, they argue,is a neo-liberal deceit that works by disempowering endangeredpopulations of autonomous agency. Its consequences represent aprofound assault on the human subject whose meaning and solepurpose is reduced to survivability. Not only does this reveal thenihilistic qualities of a liberal project that is coming to termswith its political demise. All life now enters into lasting crisesthat are catastrophic unto the end.
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Brad Evans
Themen in »Resilient Life«
Continental Philosophy Kontinentalphilosophie Philosophie Philosophy Political Philosophy & Theory Political Science Politikwissenschaft Politische Philosophie Politische Philosophie u. Politiktheorie
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"Brad Evans and Julian Reid provide a radical critique ofthe concept of resilience and its traveling companions ofvulnerability, insecurity, and catastrophe"
NY Journal of Books
"One of the most radical and illuminating critiques of thecurrently fashionable notion of resilience."
Saskia Sassen, Columbia University
"Anyone interested in political theory after biopolitics mustread this book."
Cary Wolfe, Rice University
"Evans and Reid do more than provide a devastating critique ofresilience - they dare us to leave this barren landscape byhaving the confidence to embrace human life as art, and to assertour poetic and dramatic subjectivities against the dominance of themachine."
Mark Duffield, University of Bristol
"A tour de force. Brad Evans and Julian Reid mount a powerfulindictment of the prophetic image of thought and the oppressiveworldview of endless insecurity and threat that such thinkingproduces. If there is any possibility of welcoming and celebratinga world yet to come, one that is radically different from whatcurrently is, we must, they insist, begin by moving beyond theinertia and defeatism that a catastrophic imaginarygenerates."
Adrian Parr, University of Cincinnati
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