Paul Mazzocchi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4044553 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Mazzocchi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Mazzocchi |
| SIGNATURE | MAZZOCCHI P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Political Science York University, Canada |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Beyond the Education of Desire
While critical utopias sought to rescue the political import of utopia, recently scholars have questioned their overemphasis on literary forms and a disempowering pluralism. Challenging the applicability of these claims to one of the instigators of critical utopias, I provide a political reading of Miguel Abensour's understanding of utopia and connect this to councils as a concrete institutional infrastructure. This begins with a re-reading of hi…
Desire, Friendship, and the Politics of Refusal
In charting out a prehistory of the “new utopian spirit,” this article explores the utopian afterlives of Étienne de La Boétie's Discourse on Voluntary Servitude. La Boétie's text has exercised an important influence on a number of scholars who have contributed to the critical rethinking of utopia, centrally Miguel Abensour, Pierre Clastres, Gustav Landauer, and Pierre Leroux. By exploring their appropriations of the text, the article aims to und…
Thinking Radical Democracy
Excavating Abensour
Fleshing Out the Political
This paper attempts to draw out the political import of Merleau-Ponty's ontology of the flesh, by engaging the critique levelled against it by his student and literary executor Claude Lefort. In suggesting a tension in Merleau-Ponty's work that obscures alterity, Lefort seems to miss the rich political import of Merleau-Ponty's ontology of the flesh. Founded in his development of the concepts of écart and reversibility, Merleau-Ponty's ontologica…
Desire, Friendship, and the Politics of Refusal
In charting out a prehistory of the “new utopian spirit,” this article explores the utopian afterlives of Étienne de La Boétie's Discourse on Voluntary Servitude. La Boétie's text has exercised an important influence on a number of scholars who have contributed to the critical rethinking of utopia, centrally Miguel Abensour, Pierre Clastres, Gustav Landauer, and Pierre Leroux. By exploring their appropriations of the text, the article aims to und…
Excavating Abensour
Beyond the Education of Desire
While critical utopias sought to rescue the political import of utopia, recently scholars have questioned their overemphasis on literary forms and a disempowering pluralism. Challenging the applicability of these claims to one of the instigators of critical utopias, I provide a political reading of Miguel Abensour's understanding of utopia and connect this to councils as a concrete institutional infrastructure. This begins with a re-reading of hi…
Fleshing Out the Political
This paper attempts to draw out the political import of Merleau-Ponty's ontology of the flesh, by engaging the critique levelled against it by his student and literary executor Claude Lefort. In suggesting a tension in Merleau-Ponty's work that obscures alterity, Lefort seems to miss the rich political import of Merleau-Ponty's ontology of the flesh. Founded in his development of the concepts of écart and reversibility, Merleau-Ponty's ontologica…
Fleshing Out the Political
This paper attempts to draw out the political import of Merleau-Ponty's ontology of the flesh, by engaging the critique levelled against it by his student and literary executor Claude Lefort. In suggesting a tension in Merleau-Ponty's work that obscures alterity, Lefort seems to miss the rich political import of Merleau-Ponty's ontology of the flesh. Founded in his development of the concepts of écart and reversibility, Merleau-Ponty's ontologica…
Thinking Radical Democracy
Excavating Abensour
Desire, Friendship, and the Politics of Refusal
In charting out a prehistory of the “new utopian spirit,” this article explores the utopian afterlives of Étienne de La Boétie's Discourse on Voluntary Servitude. La Boétie's text has exercised an important influence on a number of scholars who have contributed to the critical rethinking of utopia, centrally Miguel Abensour, Pierre Clastres, Gustav Landauer, and Pierre Leroux. By exploring their appropriations of the text, the article aims to und…
Beyond the Education of Desire
While critical utopias sought to rescue the political import of utopia, recently scholars have questioned their overemphasis on literary forms and a disempowering pluralism. Challenging the applicability of these claims to one of the instigators of critical utopias, I provide a political reading of Miguel Abensour's understanding of utopia and connect this to councils as a concrete institutional infrastructure. This begins with a re-reading of hi…
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