Editing Metapolitics (section)

==Contemporary thought==
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By ‘metapolitics’ I mean whatever consequences a philosophy is capable of drawing, both in and for itself, from real instances of politics as thought. Metapolitics is opposed to political philosophy, which claims that since no such politics exists, it falls to philosophers to think ‘the’ political.
 | source = [[Alain Badiou]], April 1998<ref>{{cite book | author= Badiou, Alain| title= Metapolitics| translator= [[Jason Barker]]| location= London & New York|publisher= Verso| date= 2005| isbn= 1-84467-035-X| pages= xxxix}}</ref>
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The term "metapolitics" originated from [[left-wing]] French academics, being first popularized by [[Alain Badiou]] and [[Jacques Rancière]]. Discussing Badiou's ''Metapolitics'', Bruno Bosteels asserts that:
{{quote|“Badiou argues against the tradition of political philosophy, which he associates with the likes of [[Hannah Arendt]] and [[Claude Lefort]], by proposing to think not of ‘the political’ (le politique) but of ‘politics’ (la politique) as an active form of thinking, or thought-practice, in its own right. He then goes on to evaluate the proximity of this proposal for a ‘metapolitical’ orientation to the work of his teacher [[Louis Althusser]] and his contemporaries Jacques Rancière and [[Sylvain Lazarus]], before offering [[case study|case studies]] on the concepts of democracy, justice and [[Thermidorian Reaction|Thermidoreanism]].”<ref>Excerpt from: Bosteels, Bruno. ''[http://ruconnected.ru.ac.za/mod/resource/view.php?id=142127 Philosophy for Militants.]'' Verso, 2012.</ref>}}

=== Contemporary politics === 
{{Excerpt|Nouvelle Droite#Metapolitics and strategy}}