Stupidity in Politics: Its Unavoidability and Potential

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Author(s): Nobutaka Otobe
Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought, 152
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2020

Language: English

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Acknowledgments
Note on Citations and Translations
Introduction: the unavoidability of stupidity
1 Problematizing: Deleuze on the image of thought, and stupidity as an endogenous problem of thinking and politics
2 Tracing: democracy and intensified problematic of stupidity in Rousseau, J. S. Mill, Tocqueville, and Flaubert
3 Facing/missing: the problematical thinking and Kant’s critical project
4 Being: Kobayashi and his unrepentance of wartime critique
Conclusion: potential of stupidity
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