Retreating the Political

<p>This collection of essays presents for the first time in English some of the key essays on the political by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy. Including several unpublished essays <em>Retreating the Political</em> offers some highly original perspectives on the relationship between philosophy and the political.<br> Through contemporary readings of the political in Freud Heidegger and Marx the authors ask if we can talk of an <em>a priori</em> link between the philosophical and the political; they investigate the significance of the 'figure' - the human being as political subject - in the history of metaphysics; and they inquire how we can 're-treat' the political today in the face of those who argue that philosophy is at an 'end'.</p>