Critique of Political Reason by Regis Debray

Critique of Political Reason by Regis Debray

R gis Debray's major new work is an exploration of the foundations and limits of political discourse and action. Focusing, with his familiar verve and fluency, on the mechanism through which ideologies mobilize historical subjects, Debray argues that there is a common pattern in all great political or religious movements. Each possesses an apparatus that releases affective charges of belonging and closure; each is tended by bodies of functionaries who maintain its continuity and transmit its doctrines. The great mobilizing ideologies--Christianity, Islam, Marxism--deploy corps of priests, teachers, cadres. The real foundation of political reason, for Debray, lies in the human need to participate in closed groups, denying or mitigating the harshness of the external world and the fact of death.

Régis Debray teaches philosophy at the Université de Lyon-III and is director of the European Institute of the History and Science of Religion. He is the author of many books, including Media Manifestos, Critique of Political Reason and God: An Itinerary.

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ISBN 13	9780860917632
ISBN 10	0860917630
Title	Critique of Political Reason
Author	Régis Debray
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Verso Books
Year published	1983-05-01
Number of pages	384
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