Metapolitics
Encyclopedia
Metapolitics is metalinguistic talk about the analytic, synthetic, and normative language of political inquiry and politics itself. Put simply, it is dialogue about the way we talk about politics. If one studies, analyzes, and describes a language, the language used for studying, analyzing, and describing the object language is a metalanguage
. In current usage and praxis, the term metapolitics is often used in relation to postmodern theories of the Subject and their relation to political theory. In its broadest definition, metapolitics is a discipline that studies the relationship between the State and the Individual.
Metalanguage
Broadly, any metalanguage is language or symbols used when language itself is being discussed or examined. In logic and linguistics, a metalanguage is a language used to make statements about statements in another language...
. In current usage and praxis, the term metapolitics is often used in relation to postmodern theories of the Subject and their relation to political theory. In its broadest definition, metapolitics is a discipline that studies the relationship between the State and the Individual.
External links
- A. J. Gregor. Metascience and Politics. Dictionary definition
- Peter Viereck, Metapolitics: From Wagner and the German Romantics to Hitler, 2003. ISBN 978-0765805102.
- Peter Viereck, Metapolitics Revisited
- Commentary on Alain Badiou's book Metapolitics
- Leo Zaibert, Toward Meta-politics