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Author Douzinas, Costas

Title Philosophy and Resistance in the Crisis : Greece and the Future of Europe
Published Hoboken : Wiley, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (373 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Dedication; Title; Copyright; Content; Prologue: The age of resistance; Part I Crisis; 1 The Queen's question; 2 The biopolitics of pleasure and salvation; 3 Anomie I: Social ethos and political cynicism; 4 The crisis as spectacle; Part II Philosophy; 5 Adikia : The eternal return of resistance; 6 Anomie II: Disobedience, resistance, sovereignty; 7 Political ontologies; 8 People, multitude, crowd; Part III Resistance; 9 Stasis Syntagma: The subjects and types of resistance; 10 Demos in the square; 11 Lessons of political strategy; Epilogue: The Europe to come; Notes; Index
Summary This book is about the global crisis and the right to resistance, about neoliberal biopolitics and direct democracy, about the responsibility of intellectuals and the poetry of the multitude. Using Greece as an example, Douzinas argues that the persistent sequence of protests, uprisings and revolutions has radically changed the political landscape. This new politics is the latest example of the drive to resist, a persevering characteristic of the human spirit. The EU and the IMF used Greece as a guinea pig to test the conditions of social reconstruction in times of crisis. But the
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Subject Protest movements -- Greece
Democracy -- Greece
Neoliberalism.
Political science -- Philosophy.
Democracy
Neoliberalism
Political science -- Philosophy
Politics and government
Protest movements
SUBJECT Greece -- Politics and government -- 21st century
Subject Greece
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780745669687
0745669689
9780745678597
0745678599