Nothing Sacred

Stathis Gourgouris

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Columbia University Press
07 May 2024

Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500; Humanist & secular alternatives to religion; Political structures: democracy

"Nothing Sacred makes a bold call for reconceptualizing the projects of humanism and democracy as creative sources of emancipatory meaning, from the immediate political sphere to the farthest reaches of planetary ways of living.

Restaging Aristotle's classic notion of the ""political animal"" in broad historical and geographical frames, Stathis Gourgouris explores the autopoietic capacities of human-being in society, while developing new frameworks of anticolonial humanism and radical democracy as the only worthy adversaries of neoliberal capitalism.

This reconfigured anthropological horizon enables us to imagine new ways of living by learning to pursue a radical politics of autonomy and a planetary vision that upholds life-affirming coexistence and equal sharing against the fetishism of hierarchy and servitude, money and technologic, sovereignty and endless growth.

Written with daring, erudition, and anarchic contestation, this book seeks the political through a poetic perspective. Nothing Sacred rejects niche thinking in the academy and engages a vast domain of reflections on the problem of human-being in today's dismal world."

By: Stathis Gourgouris
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9780231215152
ISBN 10: 0231215150
Pages: 360
Publication Date: 07 May 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface 1. Humanism, Human/Animal, Human-Being 2. Democracy’s Anarchy Coda: Against the Politics of the Sacred Index

Stathis Gourgouris is professor of classics, English, and comparative literature and society at Columbia University. He is the author of several books on political philosophy, aesthetics, and poetics, the most recent being The Perils of the One (Columbia, 2019).

Reviews for Nothing Sacred

Nothing Sacred shows the virtue and necessity of secular criticism and the substantial gifts it can provide. In elegant prose that is profoundly reflective on the constituents of life and thought, Stathis Gourgouris investigates the most complex problems of our time and how they came to be. This book stands out for its display of the innovative critical thinking that is essential to escape epistemological and practical political impasse. -- Paul A. Bové, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh At once nuanced, profoundly learned, and passionate, Gourgouris deftly extends his dazzling local analyses across the disciplines of politics and theology, literary and art criticism, psychoanalysis and feminism, anthropology and cybernetics. His rethinking of the basic assumptions underpinning settled conceptualizations will set the understanding of humanism and democracy on an entirely new basis. -- Donald E. Pease, Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professor in the Humanities, Dartmouth College