Summary
Žarko Paić: Freedom without power: politics in the network of entropy
The author discusses the relationship between the political and politics, while he defines freedom without power as a state of impotence to act on the fundamental principles of the modern world.
"The book that appears here as an open field of political possibilities in the dehumanized desert of the world shows that the time left to act on the revolution in the essence of the political has come to an end. There are no more illusions about homeland and polis, nation-state and to sovereignty, to human power, and to the immediate mediality of democracy. All that remains is to think of politics and politics beyond the 'small stories' of identity. The coming event of democracy is a perversion of the meaning of common life. Montesquieu made it clear long ago: when politicians speak the language of merchants, it is time to try to be monstrous networks unravel, and entropy overcomes the event of the coming community that preserves the memory of the beginning of democracy and carries into the future the dignity of action without the ultimate purpose of something higher or lower than what is the essence of politics - the idea of the common good in the splendor of the beauty and mystical power of freedom, equality and justice. It is time for the politics of the event of absolute freedom." (from the Preface)
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