A Max Weber le debemos la famosa frase seg n la cual la pol tica ser a un en rgico y lento taladrar de duras tablas con pasi n y tino . Partiendo de ella, Alexander Kluge examina en 133 textos breves los instrumentos de que disponen quienes act an pol ticamente en la dura lucha por el poder. Qu es un martillo en el quehacer pol tico? Qu significa m todo fino ? Qu es, en definitiva, lo pol tico? La pol tica aparece aqu como un estado especial de agregaci n de los sentimientos cotidianos: est en todas partes, atraviesa tanto las trayectorias privadas como la esfera p blica. Junto a los grandes personajes hist ricos emergen tambi n los peque os, los desconocidos, los casi an nimos protagonistas de la pol tica cotidiana. Un l cido y original an lisis sobre la persistencia y la indestructibilidad de lo pol tico.
We owe Max Weber the famous idea that politics is "the strong and slow boring of hard boards, with passion and judgment." Starting from this image, Alexander Kluge explores in 133 short texts the tools available to those who act politically in the harsh struggle for power. What is a hammer in political practice? What does "fine method" mean? What, ultimately, is the political? Politics appears here as a special state of aggregation of everyday feelings: it is everywhere, permeating both private lives and the public sphere. Alongside the great historical figures, the small, the unknown, the almost anonymous protagonists of everyday politics also emerge. A lucid and original analysis of the persistence and indestructibility of the political.