The Ethics of Postcommunism: History and Social Praxis in Russia

The Ethics Of Postcommunism Offers A Radical Reinterpretation Of Contemporary Russian Politics In Terms Of Giorgio Agamben's Political Philosophy. Reconstructing Agamben's Conception Of The End Of History That Challenges The Well-known Hegelian Thesis, Prozorov Approaches Post-communist Russia As A Post-historical Terrain, In Which The Teleological Dimension Of Politics Has Been Deactivated. Tracing The Suspension Of The Historical Dialectic From The Late-soviet Period To The Medvedev Presidency, The Author Develops A Paradigm Of Inoperative Social Praxis Proper To The Post-communist Condition. Universal Post-communism: Koj̈ve And Agamben On The End Of History -- A Time Like No Other: Russian Politics After The End Of History -- The Janitor Generation: The Ethics Of Disengagement In The Late-soviet Period -- From A Shining Void: The Dialectic Of Bespredel In Post-communist Social Praxis -- The Invisible Victory: Experimentum Linguae And The Appropriation Of Anomie. Sergei Prozorov. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 255-262) And Index.