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Book SynopsisThe productivity of the notion of singularity is argued to be based on the fact that it allows us to highlight the element of individual realisation, simultaneously stressing its distance from the modern conception of individuality. The 'correlate' of singularity is the reciprocity, moving and unstable, between the 'individual' and the 'collective', which occurs in class struggles.
Table of Contents1. The question of individuality 1.1. Individuals, determination and contingency 1.2. Gattungswesen and politics: from the Critique of Hegel’s Doctrine of the State to The Holy Family 1.3. The individual separation between bourgeois and citoyen 1.4. A society without relations 1.5. The need for a change of perspective: The German Ideology 2. Beyond the ‘private – social’ dichotomy 2.1. Social power and randomness in The German Ideology 2.2. The ambivalence of the community 2.3. Singularity and practice: the realisation of ‘individuals as such’. 2.4. Common class-action 2.5. Towards 1848: thinking in the conjuncture 3. Social Nexus and Indifference 3.1. The genesis of individuality and capitalism in the Grundrisse: the breakthrough of the critique of political economy 3.2. Gemeinwesen in precapitalist social formations 3.3. Society as an ensemble not of individuals, but of relations 3.4. The subject between universality and emptiness 3.5. Isolation: a sentence or a potentiality Conclusion Bibliography Index
