Pyropolitics (Paperback)

Michael Marder

ISBN 10: 3838219724 / ISBN 13: 9783838219721

Published by ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon, Stuttgart, 2025

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Paperback. From the books and heretics burnt on the pyres of the Inquisition to self-immolations at protest rallies, from the massive burning of oil on the global scale to inflammatory speech, from the imagery of revolutionary sparks ready to ignite the spirits of the oppressed to car bombings in the Middle East-fire proves to be an indispensable element of the political. To account for this elemental source of heat and light, Pyropolitics delineates a semantico-discursive field, replete with the literal and metaphorical mentions and uses of fires, flames, sparks, immolations, incinerations, and burning in political theory and practices. Relying on classical political theory, literature, theology, contemporary philosophy, and an analysis of current events, Michael Marder argues that geopolitics, or the politics of the Earth, has always had an unstable, at once shadowy and blinding, underside-pyropolitics, or the politics of fire. If this obscure double of geopolitics is, increasingly, dictating the rules of the game today, then it is crucial to learn to speak its language, to discern its manifestations, and to project where our world ablaze is heading. Previously published by Rowman and Littlefield, this edition has a new foreword from Slavoj ŽiŽek and three new chapters. Pyropolitics delineates a semantico-discursive field, replete with the literal and metaphorical mentions and uses of fires in politics. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pyropolitics (Paperback)
• Publisher: ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon, Stuttgart
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3838219724
• ISBN 13: 9783838219721
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

From the books and heretics burnt on the pyres of the Inquisition to self-immolations at protest rallies, from the massive burning of oil on the global scale to inflammatory speech, from the imagery of revolutionary sparks ready to ignite the spirits of the oppressed to car bombings in the Middle East―fire proves to be an indispensable element of the political. To account for this elemental source of heat and light, Pyropolitics delineates a semantico-discursive field, replete with the literal and metaphorical mentions and uses of fires, flames, sparks, immolations, incinerations, and burning in political theory and practices.

Relying on classical political theory, literature, theology, contemporary philosophy, and an analysis of current events, Michael Marder argues that geopolitics, or the politics of the Earth, has always had an unstable, at once shadowy and blinding, underside―pyropolitics, or the politics of fire. If this obscure double of geopolitics is, increasingly, dictating the rules of the game today, then it is crucial to learn to speak its language, to discern its manifestations, and to project where our world ablaze is heading.

Previously published by Rowman and Littlefield, this edition has a new foreword from Slavoj Žižek and three new chapters.

About the Authors

Michael Marder is Ikerbasque Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, Vitoria-Gasteiz. His work spans the fields of environmental philosophy and ecological thought, political theory, and phenomenology.

Slovenian, philosopher, cultural theorist, and public intellectual, is the international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University, professor of philosophy and psychoanalysis at the European Graduate School and senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana.