Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A purely speculative treatment of politics unrelated to practical questions.

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Examples

  • They lie in what might be called metapolitics, at a deeper level than the swordplay of a political campaign.

    National Coalition for History 2008

  • [I want to ask w] hy we do not, by and large, see aesthetics as ethics, as an ethical act, a metapolitics, for which we, as writers with the power and duty to transform, are deeply and inescapably responsible.

    The Event of Truth 2010

  • [I want to ask w] hy we do not, by and large, see aesthetics as ethics, as an ethical act, a metapolitics, for which we, as writers with the power and duty to transform, are deeply and inescapably responsible.

    February 2010 2010

  • Parceling out tips through the paper, an indulgent exercise in metapolitics, is not only ineffective, it's redundant.

    Ari Melber: Nervous Dems Give Obama Stupid and Redundant Advice 2008

  • Parceling out tips through the paper, an indulgent exercise in metapolitics, is not only ineffective, it's redundant.

    HOWIEINSEATTLE 2008

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