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Language: English
Published by de Sitter Publications, 2012
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- Title
- Agon Culture: Competition, Conflict and the Problem of Domination
- Author
- Claudio Colaguori
- Publisher
- de Sitter Publications
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1897160631
- ISBN 13
- 9781897160633
- Item weight
- 0.99 pounds
Agon Culture offers an analysis of the human condition through an examination of the way in which the cultural ideology of competition operates as a mode of rationality that underpins the order of domination. By combining insights from Theodor Adorno's critical theory with a reconstruction of the philosophy of the agon, the book formulates a novel critical theory of cultural domination that offers insights into our "winner-loser" culture and a renewed intensity of its social Darwinist tendencies. Contrary to current evolutionary thinkers who understand competition as a biological drive, Agon Culture posits that competition is a powerful force that has a largely unrecognized and dangerous underside in its promotion of interpersonal conflict, war, and cyclical domination.
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