Gillian Rose

Taking on the Political is a series of monographs that offer new perspectives on contemporary political theory. Books in the series 'take on'the political in accordance with the ambivalent colloquial sense of the phrase - as both an acceptance and a challenge The series interrogates received accounts of the relation between political thought and political practice, criticizes and engages with the contemporary political imagination, and reflects on the ongoing transformations of politics. The texts are concise and polemical. They are oriented towards critique, developments in Continental thought, and the crossing of disciplinary borders.