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Author Garcia, Tristan, 1981- author.

Title We Ourselves : the Politics of Us / Tristan Garcia ; translated by Christopher RayAlexander, Abigail RayAlexander and Jon Cogburn
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Speculative Realism
Letting be ; volume II
Garcia, Tristan, 1981- Letting be ; v. 2.
Speculative realism.
Contents Intro -- Series Editor's Preface -- We Ourselves -- Book I: Transparencies -- The first person plural -- Everyone-we-I -- Three objections -- Every we is a system of divisions -- Conflicts of division -- The intersection model -- The transparency model -- The contour -- The overlap -- Transparency and opacity -- Re-covering -- The bottom -- Book II: Constraints -- 1. The Ground of We -- 2. Dynamic -- 3. Domination -- 4. The End of We -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary Throughout the history of human societies, the question of 'we' has always entailed the question of 'us and them'. Tristan Garcia's looks at the history of how people have imagined themselves in their societies. All in all, this work is a rigorous engagement with the history of humanity's attempts at being collectively
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 24, 2021)
Subject Political psychology.
Group identity -- Political aspects
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- General.
Group identity -- Political aspects
Political psychology
Form Electronic book
Author RayAlexander, Christopher, 1983- translator.
RayAlexander, Abigail, translator
ISBN 9781474475266
1474475264
9781474496278
147449627X
Other Titles Nous. English