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

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

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.