The book explains why not everything is political and what this means for our world.

Sergei Prozorov is Professor of Political Science at the University of Jyväskylä. He is the author of ten books including Ontology and World Politics: Void Universalism I and Theory of Political Subject: Void Universalism II, both published by Routledge. He has published over 30 articles in major international journals. His research interests include political theory, continental philosophy, biopolitics, democracy and totalitarianism.

Introduction: On This and That

In Praise of Poseurs

Rethinking Pluralism

Politics and its Others

What is a Procedure?

Pluralism beyond Reductionism and Parallelism

PART 1. MAPPING THE PLURAL: ETHICS, AESTHETICS, GOVERNMENT, THEORY

Chapter 1. Ethics: The Deposition of the Self

In Excess of Every Totality

The Privilege of Asymmetry

The Expelled Other

Chapter 2. Aesthetics: The Composition of Forms

The Idle Work

The Ambivalence of Political Art

Becoming Beautiful

Chapter 3. Government: The Disposition of Things

The Providential Machine

Order and Equivalence

(Dis)Ordering Worlds

Chapter 4. Theory: The Exposition of the World

Capacity for Elaboration

The Paradoxes of Theoretical Politics

Omnipotence and Truth

Politics Revisited

Part II. NAVIGATING THE PLURAL: TEN THEOREMS OF PLURALISM

Chapter 5. Manners of Appearance: Procedures, Worlds and Objects

Procedures and Worlds

Procedures and Objects

A Tentative Typology

Chapter 6. From Plurality to Pluralism: Navigating between the Incommensurable

Beyond Reductionism: Saving Appearances

Beyond Parallelism: Coexistence without Coordination

Errancy: The Irreducibility of the Incommensurable

The Archipelago

Passages: From Domination to Synthesis

Chapter 7. Against the Temptation of Coherence

Integrity and the Limits of Politicization

The Incoherent: On Martin Heidegger and Michael Jackson

Objections: Domination, Revolution, Democracy

Chapter 8. The Shimmer of the World: Pluralism vs. Paradoxico-Criticism

The Many and the Fractured One

Is There a Monoculture?

The Powerless Paradox

Co-Appearance: Be

Beyond Event and Truth

Appendix: Ten Theorems of Pluralism

Bibliography

Index