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Recent years have seen the rise of anti-politics as a political phenomenon. Beyond this new rejection of the political class there has long existed a deeper challenge to the political itself. Identifying the work of Derrida as ´a politics´ and that of Baudrillard as ´transpolitics´ this book charts convergences and divergences in their approaches.

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Introduction 1. The Symbolic and the Impossible 2. The Subject of the Simulacrum 3. The Media of the Event 4. The Silent Majorities and the Democracy-to-come Conclusion: Beyond Anti-Politics

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Dr Mihail Evans is Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, NEC in Bucharest. He is a graduate of the Universities of Wales (Aberystywth), Nottingham and Oxford. He completed his PhD, ´Jacques Derrida - A Politics´, at the University of the West of England, Bristol.

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