Metapolitics Explained
Metapolitics (sometimes written meta-politics) describes political attempts to speak in a metalinguistic sense about politics; that is, to have a political dialogue about politics itself. Activists who use the phrase often view metapolitics as a form of "inquiry" in which the discourse of politics, and the political itself, is reimagined and reappropriated. The term was coined by Marxists and is almost always used in the context of ideological discourse among the far-left and far-right, unlike the wider academic field of political philosophy. Those citing the term often do so in an attempt to take a "self-conscious" role in describing their preferred form of political inquiry.
Contemporary thought
The term "metapolitics" originated from left-wing French academics, being first popularized by Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière. Discussing Badiou's Metapolitics, Bruno Bosteels asserts that:
Contemporary politics
Sources
- Tamir . Bar-On . 2001 . The Ambiguities of the Nouvelle Droite, 1968-1999 . The European Legacy . 6 . 3 . 333–351 . 10.1080/10848770120051349. 144359964 .
- De Benoist . Alain . 2014 . Alain de Benoist answers Tamar Bar-On . Christine Rhone . Journal for the Study of Radicalism . 8 . 1 . 141–161 . 10.14321/jstudradi.8.1.0141. 144595116 .
- Encyclopedia: Johnson . Douglas . The New Right in France . The Far Right in Western and Eastern Europe . Luciano Cheles . Ronnie Ferguson . Michalina Vaughan . second . 1995 . Longman Group . London and New York . 9780582238817 . 234–244 .
- Tom . McCulloch . The Nouvelle Droite in the 1980s and 1990s: Ideology and Entryism, the Relationship with the Front National . French Politics . 4 . 2 . 2006 . 158–178 . 10.1057/palgrave.fp.8200099. 144813395 .
Further reading
- Carlo Gambescia, Metapolitica. L’altro sguardo sul potere, Edizioni Il Foglio Letterario 2009, .
- Carlo Gambescia, Trattato di metapolitica, Edizioni Il Foglio, 2023, 2 voll.: - vol. I. Storia, concetti e metodo, ISBN 978-8876069819; - vol. II. Laboratorio storico, ISBN 978-8876069666.
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