By Andreas Schedler
Since communism collapsed we've witnessed the emergence of various political actors - neopopulists, neoliberals, fundamentalists, nationalists, and others - who proportion one ideological leitmotif: their deep contempt for contemporary democratic politics. The ebook asks an outdated query: what's politics? And it provides a brand new one to the time table of social sciences: what's antipolitics? a few authors hint antipolitical traditions in Western political notion, whereas others research the rhetoric of latest antipolitical actors within the US, the previous Soviet Union, and South the US. The publication comprises contributions from Charles H. Fairbanks Jr, Barry Hindess, Erwin A. Jaffe, Norbert Lechner, Jose Nun, Louis Pauly, Andreas Schedler, and Gershon Weiler.
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When turning from ethics to the 'Civill Philosophy' of Aristotle, II Hobbes lists the errors of that philosophy. 12 The Hobbesian objection here is that by appending that name to some regimes they foster hatred of that regime, without understanding that tyranny is just monarchy which, qua government, is necessary for the maintenance of public safety. And then comes the register of other errors in Aristotle's political philosophy: 'And therefore this is another Error of Aristotles Politiques, that in a well-ordered Common-wealth, not Men should govern, but the Laws'.
This is the idea that, among the Greeks and for the first time in human history, the members of a community (or at least its citizens) were able to take control of their collective destiny. Such an idealized image of the polis sets a standard against which the mundane politics of other times and other places can be judged and generally found wanting. 20 In precisely this fashion, for example, Meier himself immediately goes on to maintain: 'Today, by contrast, political action itself has been overlaid with processes by which we ourselves - and our identity- appear to be motorized'.
26 Barry Hindess 37 The corruption of politics is perceived as a primary cause of its failure - and as leading in particular to government not doing what it should and also doing what it should not. Conversely governmental failure is easily represented as prima facie evidence of political corruption. This last temptation will be particularly strong if the performance of government is measured against the expectations of democratic politics considered above. There is little that is new, of course, either in the perception that government has failed to manage the economy as well as it should or in the view that much of that failure should be seen as resulting from the corruption of government by 'politics' - but, with the partial exception of a few countries in western Europe and the Americas, it has usually been possible to attribute such failures to a politics that excluded important sections of the population.