Metapolitics

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Metapolitics (from the Greek μετά metá = "afterwards, behind, beyond" and politics) is the theory of politics , the pure, philosophical theory of the state that does not start from or refer to a particular state.

Different ideas

The term appears for the first time in the French-speaking area, namely by Joseph de Maistre . Lectures by the Schumacher Society , which meets annually, were published in 1985 under the title “Metapolitics” and dealt with questions of international politics, environmental politics and the further development of humanity.

Alain Badious metapolitics

With his book “On Metapolitics”, Alain Badiou deals with an “ emancipatory ” ontology of politics. With metapolitics, politics is understood here as thinking that has been tried and tested on the real and in practice. For him, a democracy is important for politics , which results from the political dynamics z. B. constituted a factory or land occupation. From this he distinguishes all forms of regulated and institutionalized democracy as apolitical. Justice and equality, which are depoliticized and shut down in every institutionalized policy, can only be established in the actions of individual people. Quoting Aristotle , he states "The seekers of equality", which Badiou refers to as institutionalized politics, "mostly spark rebellions."

Introductions of the New Right

According to a discourse analysis of right-wing intellectual media - especially Junge Freiheit - by the Duisburg Institute for Linguistic and Social Research (DISS), theorists of the New Right such as Alain de Benoist use the term metapolitics as part of a strategy of the “cultural war” and the “ cultural revolution from the right “The“ production of an interdiscourse with the aim of providing application specifications for nothing less than the 'meaning of life' ”. According to Armin Mohler's idea that the “spirit rules the world”, a right-wing spiritualized “ Gramscianism ” is formulated. According to Charles Champetier and Alain de Benoist, history “develops from the will and action of people, but this will and this action are always expressed in the context of a certain number of attitudes, beliefs and ideas that give them a meaning and guide them. “According to de Benoist, the New Right or in France the“ Nouvelle Droite ”wants to renew these ideas - in the form of“ ideas ”or myths such as people and nation for“ collective consciousness ”- and“ at the highest level through new syntheses ”to renew life make sense again ”and offer a“ coherent worldview [...] through a cross-linking way of thinking ”. Roger Griffin sees this as a tendency to“ transform fascism into a purely metapolitical figure ”. The concept of Junge Freiheit presented by Karlheinz Weißmann in the journal Criticón , the “occupation of fields in pre-political space” in order to “ let information and attitude to life seep through an entire capillary system” , is also used by the DISS as a metapolitical strategy for “achieving cultural Hegemony ” . According to Karlheinz Weißmann, Junge Freiheit offers a subcultural opportunity to do this and “only a subculture guarantees the implementation of one's own goals in the long term”.

See also

Individual evidence

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literature

  • Alain Badiou: About metapolitics. Zurich-Berlin, diaphanes 2003.
  • Alain de Benoist: Cultural Revolution from the Right. Gramsci and the Nouvelle Droite. With a foreword by Armin Mohler. 1985
  • Alain de Benoist, Charles Champetier: Manifest. The Nouvelle Droite of 2000. In Alain de Benoist: Uprising of Cultures. Berlin 1999, Young Freedom .
  • Roger Griffin, Plus ça change! The fascist pedigree of the Nouvelle Droite. In: Edward Arnold (ed.): The Development of the Radical Right in France 1890-1995. London, Routledge 2000
  • Martin Dietzsch , Siegfried Jäger, Helmut Kellershohn, Alfred Schobert: Nation instead of democracy - Being and design of the »Young Freedom«. Duisburg: Edition DISS, Vol. 4, 2003, ISBN 3-89771-733-6
  • Metapolitics. Ed .: Satish Kumar, Roswitha Hentschel. With a foreword by Carl Amery . Munich, clianus - trikont 1985