Bøker av Adrian Little

Adrian Little demonstrates how different conceptions of past, present and future contribute to the nature of political conflict in the world today. Reacting against narratives of political disillusionment and apathy, he focuses on how a new understanding of political temporality can inform our approach to political problems. He forms his argument around three major cases in which the nature of past, present and future is contested: Indigenous politics in settler colonies; the politics of bordering and migration; and debates over the future of democracy.

This book presents an innovative analysis of the nature of democratic theory, focusing on the prevalence of pious discourses of democracy in contemporary politics. Democracy is now promoted in religious terms to such an extent that it has become sacrosanct in Western political theory. This book argues that such piety relies on unsophisticated political analysis paying scant attention to the complex conditions of contemporary politics. The contention is that it is more useful to think of democracy in terms of the centrality of political disagreement and its propensity to generate political violence. This argument is exemplified by the ways in which democracy and violence have been conceptualised in the war on terrorism.

This assessment of Andre Gorz's work critically evaluates all of his writings from the 1950s to the 1990s. It highlights the eclectic nature of Gorz's intellectual heritage, and argues that Gorz is primarily a theorist of individual freedom and autonomy.

Provides critical analysis of developments in leftist political thought. The text charts new directions in the economy and the effects they have had on traditional models of social welfare and orthodox approaches to social policy.