{"product_id":"critique-of-political-reason-paperback","title":"Critique of Political Reason - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRegis Debray\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eR gis Debray's major new work is an exploration of the foundations and limits of political discourse and action. Focusing, with his familiar verve and fluency, on the mechanism through which ideologies mobilize historical subjects, Debray argues that there is a common pattern in all great political or religious movements. Each possesses an apparatus that releases affective charges of belonging and closure; each is tended by bodies of functionaries who maintain its continuity and transmit its doctrines. The great mobilizing ideologies--Christianity, Islam, Marxism--deploy corps of priests, teachers, cadres. The real foundation of \"political reason\", for Debray, lies in the human need to participate in closed groups, denying or mitigating the harshness of the external world and the fact of death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eR?gis Debray \u003c\/b\u003eteaches philosophy at the Universit? de Lyon-III and is director of the European Institute of the History and Science of Religion. He is the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003eMedia Manifestos\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCritique of Political Reason\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGod: An Itinerary\u003c\/i\u003e, also available from Verso.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.85 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 09, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47578578518237,"sku":"9780860917632","price":43.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/xcGAvuzzj99780860917632.webp?v=1773508447","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/critique-of-political-reason-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}