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Andrew Gamble is Professor of Politics and Director of the Political Economy Research Centre at the University of Sheffield.'In 120 taut, thought-provoking pages, [Gamble] has sought to rescue politics from fatalism, to show that the iron cages in which contemporary elites have taken shelter are not iron after all, to confute the pessimism of the times by posing a challenge to endism in all its forms. The argument ranges widely and draws on a formidable range of academic literatures. But the nub is devastatingly simple. The endist project, Gamble argues, is fundamentally flawed. In different ways, endists all purport to show that the space for politics has vanished, or has at least sharply contracted. And that claim is itself political.' <i>David Marquand, Times Literary Supplement</i><br /> <p>'This is a thoughtful book ... intellectually demanding without being technical. If as widely read as it deserves, <i>Politics and Fate</i> could restore public respect for political thinking.' <i>Bernard Crick, The Independent</i><br /> </p> <p>"Gamble's prose is clear and supple, his targets well chosen, his arguments effective and well tructured and his optimism realistic and sober" Nicholas Rengger, St Andrews University, UK. International Relations Theory</p>
The most characteristic expression of this disenchantment is the endless discourses on endism - the end of history, the end of ideology, the end of the nation-state, the end of authority, the end of government, the end of the public realm, the end of politics itself - all have been proclaimed in recent years.
Andrew Gamble's new book argues against the fatalism implicit in so many of these discourses, as well as against the fatalism that has always been present in many of the central discourses of modernity. It sets out a defence of politics and the political, explains why we cannot do without politics, and probes the complex relationship between politics and fate, and the continuing and necessary tension between them.
This book will be essential reading for students and scholars of politics, public affairs and political thought.
Chapter 2 The End of History.
Chapter 3 The End of the Nation State.
Chapter 4 The End of Authority.
Chapter 5 The End of the Public Domain.
Chapter 6 Politics
The most characteristic expression of this disenchantment is the endless discourses on endism - the end of history, the end of ideology, the end of the nation-state, the end of authority, the end of government, the end of the public realm, the end of politics itself - all have been proclaimed in recent years.
Andrew Gamble's new book argues against the fatalism implicit in so many of these discourses, as well as against the fatalism that has always been present in many of the central discourses of modernity. It sets out a defence of politics and the political, explains why we cannot do without politics, and probes the complex relationship between politics and fate, and the continuing and necessary tension between them.
This book will be essential reading for students and scholars of politics, public affairs and political thought.