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Michael Marder is IKERBASQUE Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country, Spain.
Preface to the New Edition
Introduction - Kindling: The World on Fire
Chapter 1: The ABC of Pyropolitics, or the ‘Elemental Regimes’ of Carl Schmitt
Chapter 2: Light without Heat, Heat without Light, and the Problem of Evil
Chapter 3: Pyropolitical Theology I: The Fires of Revolution
Chapter 4: Pyropolitical Theology II: The Politics of Sacrifice
Chapter 5: The End of Heliotropic Utopias: When the Sun Sets on the City upon the Hill
Chapter 6: Around the Hearth: Politics in the Kitchen
Conclusion – Extinguishing: The Politics of Ashes
Appendices
Index
With fires raging in Australia, with epidemics threatening to engulf us all in their gigantic blaze, with explosions of religious and ethnic fanaticism, and with armed conflicts leaving behind cities in ruins, Marder's Pyropolitics has gained an unexpected actuality. It has become a book for everyone who wants to understand not only what is going on in our crazy world, but also the deeper ideological background of the events that shatter our daily lives. In short, it has become a book for everyone.
— Slavoj Zizek, Author of Disparities and Sex and the Failed Absolute
In a highly suggestive scenario, Michael Marder captures the unfounded relationship between politics and fire. More than earth, water, and air, it is fire that best represents the political turning point that characterizes hypermodernity. At the heart of a secularization that has not erased political theology, fire constitutes the incandescent element that envelops, as a risk and an extreme possibility, the language and practice of politics.
— Roberto Esposito, Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy