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Title
Presence and the political : performing human / Farhang Rajaee.
ISBN
9783030594879 (electronic bk.)
3030594874 (electronic bk.)
9783030594862
3030594866
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxxii, 279 pages) : illustrations
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-59487-9 doi
Call Number
BJ1533.H9
Dewey Decimal Classification
179.7
Summary
This book deals with a concern of how humanity performs toward itself and how it performs within the public realm, and where it must be in relation with others. Public life is not solely about politics but also the political, i.e., intellectual, moral, economic, religious, and collective habits--including fashions and amusements, artefacts, histories, and legacies. This book argues that man raison d'être in worldly life is to have a civil presence and create civilization. It contends that what makes it possible is the coming together of "presence, ethos, and theatre" and their working in concert. The first half of this book elaborates on the nuances of these three pillars, and the second half offers three examples of civilizations that have succeeded to achieve this within what it claims to be three major worldviews that he calls "divine-immanence, the divine-transcendence, and human-immanence." Farhang Rajaee is an Emeritus Professor of Political Science and Humanities at Carleton University, Canada.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 12, 2021).
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Print version: 3030594866
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Why are we here? Presence and Civitas
Part I.A Theory of Presence (PET) and Civitas
Chapter 3. Presence and Personhood
Chapter 4. Ethos and Mechanisms
Chapter 5. Theater, Structures, and Institutions
Part II. Praxis, Civitates in History
Chapter 6. The Persians: A Civitas of Divine-Immanence
Chapter 7. The Mughals: A Civitas of Divine-Transcendence
Chapter 8. The Americans: A Civitas of Human-Immanence
Chapter 9. Final Thoughts.