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In The Book of Politics, Michael Dutton offers an affective theorization of the political and a political theorization of affect. Drawing on Western and Chinese social theory and practice, Dutton rethinks Carl Schmitt’s insistence that the political can only be thought within the antagonistic pairing of friend and enemy. Dutton shows how the power of the friend/enemy binary must be understood by conceptualizing the political as the channeling, harnessing, and transforming of affective energy flows in relation to that binary. Given this affective nature of politics, Dutton contends that to rethink the political means moving away from a political science toward an art of the political. Such an art highlights fluidity and pulls away from Eurocentric political theory, requiring a conceptualization of the political as global. He juxtaposes ancient Chinese cosmology, medicine, and Maoism against the monuments of early capitalist modernity such as the Crystal Palace and the Eiffel Tower to highlight the differences in political investments and intensities. From the Chinese revolution to the global rise of right-wing movements, Dutton rethinks politics in the contemporary world.

Author Biography:

Michael Dutton is Professor of Literature at Beijing Capital Normal University and Professor of Politics at Goldsmiths, University of London, and. He is the author of Policing Chinese Politics: A History, also published by Duke University Press, and coauthor of Beijing Time.
Release date Australia
August 9th, 2024
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Illustrations
46 illustrations
Pages
440
ISBN-13
9781478030195
Product ID
38310166

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