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Presence and the political : performing human / Farhang Rajaee.

9783030594879 (electronic bk.)
3030594874 (electronic bk.)
9783030594862
3030594866

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

English

1 online resource (xxxii, 279 pages) : illustrations

10.1007/978-3-030-59487-9 doi

BJ1533.H9

179.7

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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