Metapolitics
Template:Short description Metapolitics (sometimes written meta-politics) describes political attempts to speak in a metalinguistic sense about politics; that is, to have a political dialogue about politics itself.[citation needed] Activists who use the phrase often view metapolitics as a form of "inquiry" in which the discourse of politics, and the political itself, is reimagined and reappropriated. The term was coined by Marxists and is almost always used in the context of ideological discourse among the far-left and far-right, unlike the wider academic field of political philosophy. Those citing the term often do so in an attempt to take a "self-conscious" role in describing their preferred form of political inquiry.
Contemporary thought
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By ‘metapolitics’ I mean whatever consequences a philosophy is capable of drawing, both in and for itself, from real instances of politics as thought. Metapolitics is opposed to political philosophy, which claims that since no such politics exists, it falls to philosophers to think ‘the’ political.
The term "metapolitics" originated from left-wing French academics, being first popularized by Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière. Discussing Badiou's Metapolitics, Bruno Bosteels asserts that: Template:Quote
Contemporary politics
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Badiou, Alain (2005). Metapolitics. Translated by Jason Barker. London & New York: Verso. pp. xxxix. ISBN 1-84467-035-X.
Sources
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- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bar-On, Tamir (2001). "The Ambiguities of the Nouvelle Droite, 1968-1999". The European Legacy. 6 (3): 333–351. doi:10.1080/10848770120051349. S2CID 144359964.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.De Benoist, Alain (2014). "Alain de Benoist answers Tamar Bar-On". Journal for the Study of Radicalism. 8 (1). Translated by Christine Rhone: 141–161. doi:10.14321/jstudradi.8.1.0141. S2CID 144595116.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Johnson, Douglas (1995). "The New Right in France". In Luciano Cheles; Ronnie Ferguson; Michalina Vaughan (eds.). The Far Right in Western and Eastern Europe (second ed.). London and New York: Longman Group. pp. 234–244. ISBN 9780582238817.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.McCulloch, Tom (2006). "The Nouvelle Droite in the 1980s and 1990s: Ideology and Entryism, the Relationship with the Front National". French Politics. 4 (2): 158–178. doi:10.1057/palgrave.fp.8200099. S2CID 144813395.
Further reading
- Carlo Gambescia, Metapolitica. L’altro sguardo sul potere, Edizioni Il Foglio Letterario 2009, Template:ISBN.
- Carlo Gambescia, Trattato di metapolitica, Edizioni Il Foglio, 2023, 2 voll.: - vol. I. Storia, concetti e metodo, Template:ISBN; - vol. II. Laboratorio storico, Template:ISBN
- Felix Schilk (2025). The Metapolitics of Crises: How the New Right Weaponises Narratives to Mainstream Far-Right Ideology. International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society. Script error: No such module "CS1 identifiers".
External links
- A. J. Gregor. Metascience and Politics. Dictionary definition
- Peter Viereck, Metapolitics: From Wagner and the German Romantics to Hitler, 2003. Template:ISBN.
- Peter Viereck, Metapolitics Revisited
- Commentary on Alain Badiou's book Metapolitics
- Leo Zaibert, Toward Meta-politics
- Igor Efimov. Metapolitics: our choice and history (in Russian). Leningrad, 1991. 224 pages. Template:ISBN
