Political theory and contemporary philosophy : concepts of the one and the many in contemporary thought

"This volume in the Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy series examines one of the most important topics in contemporary political theory: how to conceptualize the relationship between the one and the many. The essays discuss how to reconcile multiple ontologies without subsuming them to a totalitarian unity. While one school of thought (Deleuze, Negri) seeks to create a new ontology based on the many instead of the one, (which, politically, is close to anarchy), another proposes to understand the "one" as the "ultra-one" of the event (Badiou). In this groundbreaking work, leading thinkers explore these debates and offer alternative concepts. Building on Jean-Luc Nancy's essay who proposes an ontology of "singular plurality," contributors aim to synthesize the one and the many and suggest different ways of forming collectives, beyond the dominant representative political forms. An original and challenging work, Politics of the One addresses new possible ways of bringing people together, integrating philosophy with theoretical and practical problems of politics" -- "Leading thinkers address the relationship between the one and the many in this Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy volume"-- Machine generated contents note: Introduction to the OneThe Concept of One: From Philosophy to Politics -Artemy Magun Part I. Metaphysics of the One and the Multiple1. More than One -Jean Luc Nancy 2. Condivision, or Towards a Non- communitarian Concatenation of Singularities -Gerald Raunig 3. Unity and Solitude -Artemy Magun 4. The Fragility of the One -Maria Calvacante 5. The One: Construction or Event? For a Politics of Becoming -Boyan Mancher Part II. 20th-Century Thinkers of Unity and Multiplicity 6. Truth and Infinity in Badiou and Heidegger -Alexey Chernyakov 7. Complicated Presence: The Unity of Being in Parmenides and Heidegger -Jussi Bachman 8. The Universal, the General, the Multiple in the Perspective of a Political Utopia: Deleuze and Badiou on the Event -Keti Chukhrov 9. Humanity, Unity and the One -Nina Power Part III. Unity and Multiplicity in Nature 10. Elemental Nature as the Ultimate Common Ground of the World Community -Susanna Lindberg 11. Vegetative Democracy, or the Post-metaphysics of Plants -Michael Marder Part IV. Unity in Action: Forms of Political Consolidation in the Case of Contemporary Russia12. Collectivity in Post-revolutionary Russia -Igor Tchubarov13. Street University: Production of Collective Time and Public Space -Pavel Arsenyev 14. Fighting Together: the Problem of Solidarity -Carine Cle;ment Part V. E Pluribus Unum: Res Publica and Community 5. How Does One Constitute the One? Theology of the Icon, Theory of Non-representative Art and of Non-representative Politics -Oleg Kharkhodin12. Drawing Lots in Politics: Unity and Totality -Yves Sintomer. About the authors Introduction Part I The other One1 More than One Jean-Luc Nancy 2 The fragility of the One Marcia Sa Cavalcante Schuback 3 Unity and solitude Artemy Magun Part II Event of the One4 Genesis of the event in Deleuze: From the multiple to the general Keti Chukhrov 5 Truth and infinity in Badiou and Heidegger Alexey Chernyakov 6 Suspension of the One: Badiou's objective phenomenology and politics of the subject Vitaly Kosykhin 7 Unity in crisis: Protometaphysical and postmetaphysical decisions Jussi Backman Part III The Singular Plural8 Vegetal democracy: The plant that is not One Michael Marder 9 Dividuum and condividuality Gerald Raunig Part IV Unity of the World10 The One: Composition or event? For a politics of the becoming Boyan Manchev11 Elemental nature as the ultimate common ground of the world community Susanna Lindberg Part V Politics of the One12 Negative imperialization Artemy Magun 13 ... et unus non solus, sed in pluribus: A Citizen as Eikon Oleg Kharkhordin 14 Drawing lots in politics: The one, the few, and the many Yves Sintomer 15 More than two: The One as singularity in ambiguity Gerald Raunig Index of names Index "This volume in the Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy series examines one of the most important topics in contemporary political theory: how to conceptualize the relationship between the one and the many. The essays discuss how to reconcile multiple ontologies without subsuming them to a totalitarian unity. While one school of thought (Deleuze, Negri) seeks to create a new ontology based on the many instead of the one, (which, politically, is close to anarchy), another proposes to understand the "one" as the "ultra-one" of the event (Badiou). In this groundbreaking work, leading thinkers explore these debates and offer alternative concepts. Building on Jean-Luc Nancy's essay who proposes an ontology of "singular plurality," contributors aim to synthesize the one and the many and suggest different ways of forming collectives, beyond the dominant representative political forms. An original and challenging work, Politics of the One addresses new possible ways of bringing people together, integrating philosophy with theoretical and practical problems of politics"-- Provided by publisher "Leading thinkers address the relationship between the one and the many in this Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy volume"-- Provided by publisher