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THE TRANSFORMATION OF POLITICS - DANIEL INNERAR...

Nowadays  politics is only one voice among many in the concert of social self-organization. Its
function is to articulate the differentiated systems of our societies: it encourages their
self-restraint  while at the same time restraining itself. Such a conception obviously
threatens the primacy of the nation-state. While it is not necessarily disappearing  it must
nevertheless cease to be thought of as a dominant principle of organization  and must assume
its place in a system of regulation that proceeds on several levels. Distant from the anarchist
or Marxist theories that herald the end of the state as it is from libertarian theories of the
minimal state  the book illustrates that it is possible in the contemporary period to go beyond
the alternatives of dirigisme and neoliberal spontaneity. However  such a transformation can
only prove effective through two conditions: we must first reject the enduring opposition
between Right and Left  and second  we must invent an anti-state social democracy that is able
in its own right to glean the most it can out of the liberal legacy. This book combines
philosophical technicality  clarity and elegance of writing in an attempt to provide politics
with meaning again  particularly in an era where discourse about its powerlessness abounds.

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