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In An Archaeology of the Political, Elías José Palti argues that the realm of the political is not a natural, transhistorical entity. Instead, he claims that the horizon of the political arose in the context of a series of changes that affirmed the power of absolute monarchies in seventeenth-century Europe and was successively reconfigured from this period up to the present. Palti traces this series of redefinitions accompanying alterations in the regimes of power, creating a genealogy of the concept of the political. Perhaps most important, An Archaeology of the Political demonstrates that transposing ideas from one historical context into another invariably inflicts violence on the conceptual framework from which all political ideas take their meanings.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: earliest times to present day

• Full title: Archaeology of the Political
• Author: El as Jos Palti
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9780231179928
• ISBN: 9780231179928
• ID: 15454509
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Weight: 502 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 160 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. March 2017

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