This collection of essays presents for the first time in English some of thekey essays on the political by Philippe LacoueLabarthe and JeanLuc Nancy.Including s... » 

This collection of essays presents for the first time in English some of thekey essays on the political by Philippe LacoueLabarthe and JeanLuc Nancy.Including several unpublished essays Retreating the Political offers somehighly original perspectives on the relationship between philosophy and thepolitical.Through contemporary readings of the political in Freud Heidegger and Marxthe authors ask if we can talk of an a priori link between the philosophicaland the political they investigate the significance of the figure thehuman being as political subject in the history of metaphysics and theyinquire how we can retreat the political today in the face of those whoargue that philosophy is at an end. «