HYPERPOLITICS: EXTREME POLITICIZATION WITHOUT POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES.
The article analyzes Anton Jäger’s book *Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization Without Political Consequences*, which examines the paradox of intense political engagement in the digital age that fails to produce substantive change. Jäger traces Western politics from the post-Cold War era of politica...
| Publicado en: | First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion & Public Life no. 365; pp. 57 - 61 |
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Institute on Religion & Public Life
Aug/Sep2026
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