...Nabila Abbas; Yves Sintomer Abstract A contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Antipolitics,” this article examines the diverse types of imaginary that support sortition, which is currently at the heart of important debates on the reform of existing democratic institutions. Different...

...Jeffrey M. Perl Abstract In this piece, the editor of Common Knowledge introduces a long‐term project titled “Antipolitics: Symposium in Memory of György Konrád.” Konrád, who died in 2019, was a founding member of the Common Knowledge editorial board, and the symposium is meant to find present‐day...

... and antipolitical essayist, but the emphasis of the essay falls on how Havel the man dealt with the disappointments he endured in political office, including the passage of “lustration” laws and the election of Václav Klaus as prime minister. The organizing principle of this essay is the distinction made...

... Orthodox, early Hasidic, Shi'ite, Jain and other Indic, Taoist, and Zen religious traditions. This introduction emphasizes the secular approaches, mostly antipolitical or postphilosophical, that wear the adjective “quietist” metaphorically, including the postmodern currents that Martha Nussbaum has named...

...György Konrád; Jim Tucker Abstract Originally published in Common Knowledge 11, no. 2 (Fall 2005), this essay is reprinted in 2022 as the prelude to the first installment of a project titled “Antipolitics” and dedicated to the author's memory. “To really know” what a writer “is like,” Konrád writes...

...Terrill G. Bouricius Abstract While elections are, today, widely considered a fundamental feature of democracy, the argument of this two‐part article, published in the Common Knowledge symposium “Antipolitics,” is that elections are a problematic and even inappropriate way of choosing...

..., is to distinguish this early modern approach from our present notions of civil society. In the sense in which the term has become influ- ential in communitarian and antipolitical discourse, “civil society” is imagined The author would like to thank Julia Reinhard Lupton, 1.  New Historicist critics have made...

...Jeffrey C. Isaac Duke University Press 2004 RETHINKING THE LEGACY OF CENTRAL EUROPEAN DISSIDENCE Jeffrey C. Isaac It is now more than a quarter century since the first expressions of Central Euro- pean “antipolitical” dissidence—Václav Havel’s open letter to President Husák, Adam...

... the Nameless Wild One.  — Henry Suso, Little Book of Truth “Antipolitics,” in the milieu associated with György Konrád, is a matter of turn- ing away from official parties and state-sanctioned institutions — turning away from them, that is, in favor of unofficial “civil society.”1 The faith...

...; Turgenev and Herzen—then samples the moral je m’accuse of Péter Nádas and the antipolitics (almost impolitics) of Adam Michnik. Gianni Vattimo has for years suggested “weak thought” as an alternative to the strength or power that so many...

... are The Loser ; The Case Worker ; A Feast in the Garden ; and The Stone Dial ; his essay collections include The Melancholy of Rebirth and The Invisible Voice . But he was best-known for his book Antipolitics , widely regarded as the key manifesto of dissidents during the years preceding the 1989...

...-International and the Berlin Akademie der Künste. Among his novels in English translation are The Loser ; The Case Worker ; A Feast in the Garden ; and The Stone Dial . His essay collections include The Melancholy of Rebirth and The Invisible Voice , but he was best known for his book Antipolitics...

... Antipolitics The Jews of Europe...

... political or the most antipolitical of all: libertarianism and anarchism.” that “the only omnipresent or recurring political ideology within the avant- be absolutely new. absolutely be old- very a Beckett’s Like . . . romantics. to look on absurd, is hero bound we stealthy going...

..., in mathematics, gives a positive result. . . . It’s as if we were 40 obliged to refer to action as “non-inaction,” to hope as “non-hopelessness,” or to faith as “non-unbelief.” Antipolitics, Konrád’s coinage, strikes me as most adequate—better than the terms...

..., in mathematics, gives a positive result. . . . It’s as if we were 40 obliged to refer to action as “non-inaction,” to hope as “non-hopelessness,” or to faith as “non-unbelief.” Antipolitics, Konrád’s coinage, strikes me as most adequate—better than the terms...

..., to and ourselves in simplicity of attitude an mean I antipolitics).or theology negative a (ratherthan attitude” an “just is were  they suggested Nietzsche as same, the extremes these are Or zealotry? and ism nihil between extremis, or, in naïveté and cynicism between choose we Must...

... of authorial personalities, thinking subjects, and conceptual personae that wander through electronic networks in increasingly oblique relationships to their even more complex biological parents.15 The death of utopia was the radical agenda of “antipolitical” dissidents...

... Europe’: Power, Pol- tral Europe]: A Habsburg Myth or Antipolitics?” Theory, itics, and Culture,” Cross Currents 1 (1982): 30–38; Milan Culture, and Society 13.4 (November 1996): 93–108. For Kundera’s influential text “The Tragedy of Central a historical survey, see Jacques Le Rider, La...

... - 8 Society and Culture, Theory, Antipolitics or Myth Habsburg ofMitteleuropa Resonance “The Delanty, Gerard Theory Social of Journal European europa...