Drilling Through Hard Boards

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Drilling Through Hard Boards
82,00 lei

Categorii: Diverse, Diverse

Limba: Engleza

Data publicării: 2019

Editura: Seagull Books London Ltd

Tip copertă: Paperback

Nr Pag: 408

Colectie: German List

Traducatori: Wieland Hoban,Iain Galbraith

ISBN: 9780857427014

Dimensiuni: l: 12.7cm | H: 20.3cm

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Drilling Through Hard Boards
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Max Weber famously described politics as “a strong, slow drilling through hard boards with both passion and judgment.” Taking this as his inspiration, Alexander Kluge brings readers yet another literary masterpiece. Drilling through Hard Boards is a kaleidoscopic meditation on the tools available to those who struggle for power. Weber’s metaphorical drill certainly embodies intelligent tenacity as a precondition for political change. But what is a hammer in the business of politics, Kluge wonders, and what is a subtle touch? Eventually, we learn that all questions of politics lead to a single one: what is political in the first place?

In the book, Kluge masterfully unspools more than one hundred vignettes, through which it becomes clear that the political is more often than not personal. Politics are everywhere in our everyday lives, so along with the stories of major political figures, we also find here the small, mostly unknown ones: Elfriede Eilers alongside Pericles, Chilean miners next to Napoleon, a three-month-old baby beside Alexander the Great. Drilling through Hard Boards is not just Kluge’s newest fiction, it is a masterpiece of political thought.

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