{"product_id":"critique-of-political-reason-9780860917632","title":"Critique of Political Reason","description":"Régis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Regis Debray\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/1983\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.07lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.85d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780860917632\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRégis Debray \u003c\/b\u003eteaches philosophy at the Université 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43792746414195,"sku":"9.78086E+12","price":42.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_4cd1ee17-d504-4013-90c4-b46fca478281.jpg?v=1758105108","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/critique-of-political-reason-9780860917632","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}