Paul Rekret is Associate Professor of Politics at Richmond University, the American International University London. He is author of Down With Childhood: Pop Music and the Crisis of Innocence (Repeater 2017) and has published widely on issues in contemporary political theory and in music politics. He is host of Beholder Halfway, a series of radio essays on music politics airing monthly on Resonance.Extra.

In this excellent book, Paul Rekret shows how Derrida’s and Foucault’s writings are caught in the paradox of, at once, affirming and denying the contingency of their post-foundational ontologies. This is an important contribution to the debates about the politics of post-structuralism.

• Introduction: Towards a Post-Foundational Political Thought / 1. Two Economies of Violence / 2. Cartesian Exclusions / 3. The Question of the Outside / 4. The Same and the Other / 5. The Displacement of Politics

Paul Rekret is Associate Professor of Politics at Richmond University, the American International University London. He is author of Down With Childhood: Pop Music and the Crisis of Innocence (Repeater 2017) and has published widely on issues in contemporary political theory and in music politics. He is host of Beholder Halfway, a series of radio essays on music politics airing monthly on Resonance.Extra.

In this excellent book, Paul Rekret shows how Derrida’s and Foucault’s writings are caught in the paradox of, at once, affirming and denying the contingency of their post-foundational ontologies. This is an important contribution to the debates about the politics of post-structuralism.

• Introduction: Towards a Post-Foundational Political Thought / 1. Two Economies of Violence / 2. Cartesian Exclusions / 3. The Question of the Outside / 4. The Same and the Other / 5. The Displacement of Politics