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Antagonistics: Capitalism and Power in an Age of War
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Antagonistics addresses core political and theoretical questions: How should weconceive the relations between neo-imperial warfare and neoliberalism, American hegemony and capitalist globalization? Reflections on the centralissues of the post-9/11 order are set within a larger framework, tracing theintertwined evolution of the modern state system and the capitalist mode ofproduction, from the Treaty of Westphalia to the Occupation of Iraq.Balakrishnan interrogates three key political perspectives-liberalism(Tocqueville), the radical right (Schmitt), and the Marxist left (Althusser)-fortheir insights on state power and civil society, democracy, and class.Antagonistics combines intellectual history, political philosophy, and historicalsociology to produce a highly distinctive portrait of an age of capital and war.
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