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`The truth will set you free' is a maxim central to both theories and practices of resistance. Nonetheless, it is a claim that has come under fire from an array of critical perspectives in the second half of the 20th century. Iain MacKenzie analyses two of the most compelling of these perspectives: the poststructuralist politics of truth formulated by Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze and the alternative post-foundational account of truth and militancy developed by Alain Badiou. He argues that a critically oriented version of poststructuralism provides both an understanding of the deeply entwined nature of truth and power and a compelling account of the creative practices that may sustain resistance.

Introduction -- Deleuze and Guattari and political theory -- Dramatization as critical method -- Dramatization : the ontological claims -- Language and the method of dramatization -- Cinema and the method of dramatization -- Events and the method of dramatization -- Conclusion

The extent and nature of rights; the sources of state power; the promises and pitfalls of democracy; how to achieve a just distribution of social goods; the claims of culture and gender on our identity: these are just some of the issues to have been addressed by political philosophers throughout history to the present day. Politics: Key Concepts in Philosophy offers a thorough and stimulating account of political philosophy. The text is structured thematically in order to convey the vibrancy of debates within the discipline. Through these debates the text addresses the ideas of major thinkers

What is required of the idea of critique if it is to overcome indifference? This question addresses core themes in modern, post-Kantian and European philosophy, challenging theory's resignation in the face of contemporary political and economic formations. If indifference is to be overcome, critique must be demarcated in its purity, as an idea of critique in and of itself. For the idea of critique to become pure we must view critique as the construction of difference-only pure critique, as the construction of difference, can overcome our current age of indifference. The Idea of Pure Critique will appeal to students of Kant as well as to the many interested in Deleuze and Guattari's contribution to philosophies of difference. More fundamentally, the book presents a series of political and philosophical challenges to the apathy that pervades modern forms of life

Idea, event, ideology / Iain MacKenzie -- Ideology and imaginary / Caroline Williams -- A world beyond ideology? / Robert Porter -- City life and the conditions of possibility of an ideology-proof subject / Kieran Keohane -- Rehabilitating ideology after poststructuralism / Siniša Malešević -- The dialectics of the real / Diana Coole -- Ideology, language and discursive psychology / Michael Billig -- The birth of the subject and the use of truth / Mark Haugaard

Lung injury is frequently a component of the polytrauma sustained by military personnel surviving blast on the battlefield. This article describes a case series of the military casualties admitted to University Hospital Birmingham's critical care services (role 4 facility), during the period 1 July 2008 to 15 January 2010. Of the 135 casualties admitted, 107 (79.2%) were injured by explosive devices. Plain chest films taken soon after arrival in the role 4 facility were reviewed in 96 of the 107 patients. In 55 (57.3%) films a tracheal tube was present. One or more radiological abnormalities was present in 66 (68.75%) of the films. Five patients met the consensus criteria for the definition of adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). The majority of casualties with blast-related lung injury were successfully managed with conventional ventilatory support employing a lung protective strategy; only a small minority received non-conventional support at any time in the form of high-frequency oscillatory ventilation. Of those casualties who survived to be received by the role 4 facility, none subsequently died as a consequence of lung injury.

1. McLellan, Marx and method / David Bates -- 2. McLellan's Marx : interpreting thought, changing life / Terrell Carver -- 3. The concept of alienation and the development of Marx's thought / Sean Sayers -- 4. David McLellan and continuity in Marx / Mark Cowling -- 5. Marx's confrontation with free market dogma : the latent moral argument in Capital / Lawrence Wilde -- 6. Where Marxist humanism went wrong / Alistair McLeish -- 7. Beyond the narrow horizon of bourgeois right / Bhikhu Parekh -- 8. Rush rhees on Simone Weil / Rowan Williams -- 9. Marx and atheism / Charles Devellennes -- 10. Ideology, ideologies and ideologues / Iain MacKenzie -- 11. Replies and concluding remarks / David McLellan.

Introduction : setting the agenda / Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone, Fred Francis, Iain MacKenzie -- Diagrams of comic estrangement / James Williams -- "Against the assault of laughter" : differentiating critical and resistant humour / Nick Holm -- Can we learn the truth from Lenny Bruce? A careful cognitivism about satire / Dieter Declercq -- Laughter, liturgy, Lacan and resistance to capitalist logic / Francis Stewart -- Humitas : humour as performative resistance / Kate Fox -- Conformist comedians : political humour in the eighteenth-century Dutch Republic / Ivo Nieuwenhuis -- First World War cartoon comedy as criticism of British politics and society / Pip Gregory -- A suspended pratfall : mimesis and slapstick in contemporary art / Levi Hanes -- "Life" in struggle : the indifferent humour of Beckett's prose heroes / Selvin Yaltir -- "Holiday in Cambodia" : punk's acerbic comedy / Russ Bestley -- 'What can't be cured must be endured" : the postcolonial humour of Salman Rushdie, Sami Shah, and Hari Kondabolu / Christine Caruana -- Political jester : from fool to king / Constantino Pereira Martins -- Three easy steps to a new you? or, some thoughts on the politics of humour in the workplace / Adrian Hickey, Giuliana Monteverde, and Robert Porter

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Analytical Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Contributors -- General Introduction: What are Political Concepts? -- PART I POLITICAL PRINCIPLES -- Introduction -- 1. Justice -- 2. Liberty -- 3. Equality -- 4. Rights -- PART II POLITICAL LEGITIMACY -- Introduction -- 1. Democracy -- 2. Representation -- 3. Toleration -- 4. Multiculturalism -- PART III GOVERNING THE POLITICAL -- Introduction -- 1. The State -- 2. Rule of Law -- 3. Civil Society -- 4. Power -- PART IV POLITICAL IDENTITIES -- Introduction -- 1. Human Nature -- 2. Community -- 3. Nation -- 4. Globalisation -- PART V STRUCTURING THE POLITICAL -- Introduction -- 1. Ideology -- 2. Discourse -- 3. Difference -- 4. The Body Politic -- Notes on the Authors of the Selected Readings -- Bibliography -- Further Reading -- Copyright Acknowledgements -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Emergence -- Introduction -- 1. Poststructuralism and Modern European Philosophy -- 2. From Marxism to Poststructuralism -- 3. From Structuralism to Poststructuralism -- Part II: Methods -- Introduction -- 4. A History of the Method: Examining Foucault's Research Methodology -- 5. Derrida, Deconstruction and Method -- 6. Écriture Féminine -- 7. Schizoanalysis: An Incomplete Project -- Part III: Themes -- Structure and Subject -- Introduction -- 8. Structure and Subject -- 9. How do we Recognise the Subject? -- 10. Foucault: The Culture of Self, Subjectivity and Truth-telling Practices -- Language and Text -- Introduction -- 11. Derrida's Language: Play, Différance and (Con)text -- 12. Hélène Cixous and the Play of Language -- 13. Luce Irigaray: An Ode to A-(Luce) -- Form and Institution -- Introduction -- 14. Photography and Poststructuralism: The Indexical and Iconic Sign System -- 15. Deleuze and the Image of Film Theory -- 16. The Museum of Now -- 17. Institutions, Semiotics and the Politics of Subjectivity -- Resistance and Limit -- Introduction -- 18. 'Here and Nowhere': Poststructuralism, Resistance and Utopia -- 19. The Powers of the Outside in Deleuze and Cixous -- 20. Politics in-between Nihilism and History -- Part IV: Trajectories -- Introduction -- 21. The Receptions of Poststructuralism -- 22. From Liberation Theory to Postcolonial Theory: The Poststructuralist Turn -- 23. The Pharmacology of Poststructuralism: An Interview with Bernard Stiegler -- Conclusion: Poststructuralism Today? -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index