Read the preface to POLITICAL CATEGORIES: THINKING BEYOND CONCEPTS, by Michael Marder. In this work, Marder proposes a new methodology for political science and philosophy, one which he terms “categorial thinking.” Under this lens, the political appears not as a singular concept but as a family of categories, allowing room for new, plural, and often antagonistic ideas about the state, the people, sovereignty, and power. Today is the first of a two- part post in which Marder discusses the phenomenology and eroticism of power.
