Dialectics And Contemporary Politics

Author : John Grant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
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Release : 2011-06-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136703225

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Dialectics and Contemporary Politics recasts dialectical thought for a post-Marxist age in which labour movement politics is just one political option among many. The book is organized thematically around concepts such as immanent critique, ideology, experience, and resistance, and according to figures who are vital to the present trajectory of dialectics, including Hegel, Adorno, Foucault, Jameson and Žizek. New analysis of these concepts and theorists is used to show how they transform our understanding of social life as well as offer a way of understanding social transformation. Interspersed throughout this theoretical work are dialectical examinations of political phenomena from tolerance, democracy, and the rise of Barack Obama, to state-economy relations as well as those of power and resistance. A radical and often revolutionary theory of society is pursued that is no longer confined to the terms of Marxism or any other school of thought. In this regard a novel advance is made by presenting the history of dialectical criticism as an ‘anti-tradition,’ which is defined as a practice that is characterized by a history of discontinuity, discord, and incompatible applications. A theory of dialectics emerges that is flexible, coherent, and which can account for much more than capitalism and class politics. This work will be of great interest to all scholars of Marxism, critical theory, social and political theory and political philosophy

Author : Andrew Buchwalter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780415806107

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Dialectics, Politics, and the Contemporary Value of Hegel's Practical Philosophy by Andrew Buchwalter Pdf

This book explores and details the actuality (Aktualität) of Hegel's social and political philosophy--its relevance, topicality, and contemporary validity. It asserts--against the assumptions of those in a wide range of traditions--that Hegel's thought not only remains relevant to debates in current social and political theory, but is capable of productively enhancing and enriching those debates. The book is divided into three main sections. Part I considers the actuality of Hegel's social and political thought in the context of a constructed dialogues with later social and political theorists, including Marx, Adorno, Habermas, and Rawls. Part II explores Hegel's internal criticism of Enlightenment rationality as well as the unique manner in which his thought reaffirms both the classical tradition of politics and the Christian conception of freedom in order to deepen and further develop our understanding of modernity and modern secularity. Part III considers Hegel's contribution to current theorizing about globalization.

Author : Diana Coole
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134969197

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Negativity and Politics by Diana Coole Pdf

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Shannon Brincat
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317413073

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Dialectics in World Politics by Shannon Brincat Pdf

This volume explores the conceptual, methodological and praxeological aspects of dialectical analysis in world politics. As dialectics has remained an under-theorised analytical tool in international relations, this volume provides a critical resource for those seeking to deploy dialectics in their own research by showcasing its effectiveness for understanding and transforming world politics. Contributions demonstrate a number of innovative ways in which dialectical thinking can be of benefit to the study of world politics by covering three thematic concerns: (i) conceptual or meta-theoretical dimensions of dialectics; (ii) methodological features and general principles of dialectical approaches; and (iii) applications and/or case studies that deploy a dialectical approach to world politics. Canvassing a diverse range of dialectical approaches on key issues in world politics – from global security to postcolonial resistances, from the theoretical problems of reification and complexity, to the study of the global futures and the intercultural historical expressions of dialectics – Dialectics and World Politics offers key insights into the social forces and contradictions that are generative of transformation in world politics and yet routinely downplayed in orthodox approaches to international relations. Each chapter demonstrates how dialectics can be utilized more broadly in the discipline and deployed in a critical fashion as part of an emancipatory project. This book was originally published as a special issue of Globalizations.

Author : John Grant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136703232

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Dialectics and Contemporary Politics by John Grant Pdf

Dialectics and Contemporary Politics develops a full theory of dialectics in order to reset the terms of dialectical critique and affirm its ability to produce radical insights about contemporary society. Dialectical thought has been the subject of sustained criticism since the 1960s, when competing approaches such as structuralism, genealogy, deconstruction and post-Marxism took political theorizing in new directions.

Author : Paul Diesing
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429723957

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Hegel's Dialectical Political Economy by Paul Diesing Pdf

This book demonstrates how Hegel's dialectic can be used in empirical research, and shows how one can do dialectical research in economics. It also shows how one can use dialectical thinking to interpret some personal or social or political problem and devise a possible solution.

Author : Reiland Rabaka
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739130995

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Du Bois's Dialectics by Reiland Rabaka Pdf

Du Bois's Dialectics is doubly distinguished from other books on Du Bois because it is the first extended exploration of Du Bois's contributions to new critical theory and the first book-length treatment of his contributions to contemporary black radical politics and the developing discipline of Africana Studies. With chapters that undertake ideological critiques of education, religion, the politics of reparations, and the problematics of black radical politics in contemporary culture and society, Du Bois's Dialectics employs Du Bois as its critical theoretical point of departure and demonstrates his (and Africana Studies') contributions to, as well as contemporary critical theory's connections to, critical pedagogy, sociology of religion, and reparations theory. Rabaka offers the first critical theoretical treatment of the W. E. B. Du Bois_Booker T. Washington debate, which lucidly highlights Du Bois's transition from a bourgeois black liberal to a black radical and revolutionary democratic socialist. This book is primarily directed at scholars, advanced undergraduate and graduate students working in and associated with Africana Studies, American Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Cultural Studies.

Author : Scott Warren
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226873923

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The Emergence of Dialectical Theory by Scott Warren Pdf

Scott Warren’s ambitious and enduring work sets out to resolve the ongoing identity crisis of contemporary political inquiry. In the Emergence of Dialectical Theory, Warren begins with a careful analysis of the philosophical foundations of dialectical theory in the thought of Kant, Hegel, and Marx. He then examines how the dialectic functions in the major twentieth-century philosophical movements of existentialism, phenomenology, neomarxism, and critical theory. Numerous major and minor philosophers are discussed, but the emphasis falls on two of the greatest dialectical thinkers of the previous century: Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jürgen Habermas. Warren’s shrewd critique is indispensable to those interested in the history of social and political thought and the philosophical foundations of political theory. His work offers an alternative for those who find postmodernism to be at a philosophical impasse.

Author : George Ciccariello-Maher
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780822373704

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Decolonizing Dialectics by George Ciccariello-Maher Pdf

Anticolonial theorists and revolutionaries have long turned to dialectical thought as a central weapon in their fight against oppressive structures and conditions. This relationship was never easy, however, as anticolonial thinkers have resisted the historical determinism, teleology, Eurocentrism, and singular emphasis that some Marxisms place on class identity at the expense of race, nation, and popular identity. In recent decades, the conflict between dialectics and postcolonial theory has only deepened. In Decolonizing Dialectics George Ciccariello-Maher breaks this impasse by bringing the work of Georges Sorel, Frantz Fanon, and Enrique Dussel together with contemporary Venezuelan politics to formulate a dialectics suited to the struggle against the legacies of colonialism and slavery. This is a decolonized dialectics premised on constant struggle in which progress must be fought for and where the struggles of the wretched of the earth themselves provide the only guarantee of historical motion.

Author : Andrew J. Douglas
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438448411

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In the Spirit of Critique by Andrew J. Douglas Pdf

Offers a new perspective on the political significance of the Hegelian dialectical legacy. Focusing on the critical postures of Hegel, Marx, and a series of twentieth-century intellectuals, including Sartre, Adorno, and C. L. R. James, this book explores what dialectical thinking entails and how such thinking might speak to the lived realities of the contemporary political moment. What is revealed is not a formal method or a grand philosophical system, but rather a reflective energy or disposition—a dialectical spirit of critique—that draws normative sustenance from an emancipatory moral vision but that remains attuned principally to conflict and tension, and to the tragic uncertainties of political life. In light of the unique challenges of the late-modern age, as theorists and citizens struggle to sustain an active and coherent critical agenda, In the Spirit of Critique invites serious reconsideration of a rich and elusive intellectual tradition.

Author : Andrew Buchwalter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136624551

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Dialectics, Politics, and the Contemporary Value of Hegel's Practical Philosophy by Andrew Buchwalter Pdf

This book explores and details the actuality (Aktualität) of Hegel’s social and political philosophy--its relevance, topicality, and contemporary validity. It asserts--against the assumptions of those in a wide range of traditions--that Hegel’s thought not only remains relevant to debates in current social and political theory, but is capable of productively enhancing and enriching those debates. The book is divided into three main sections. Part 1 considers the actuality of Hegel’s social and political thought in the context of a constructed dialogues with later social and political theorists, including Marx, Adorno, Habermas, and Rawls. Part 2 explores Hegel’s internal criticism of Enlightenment rationality as well as the unique manner in which his thought reaffirms both the classical tradition of politics and the Christian conception of freedom in order to deepen and further develop our understanding of modernity and modern secularity. Part 3 considers Hegel’s contribution to current theorizing about globalization.

Author : Michael O'Neill Burns
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781783482047

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Kierkegaard and the Matter of Philosophy by Michael O'Neill Burns Pdf

This book offers an examination of the political and ontological significance of the authorship of Søren Kierkegaard in relation to German Idealism and contemporary European philosophy.

Author : John Molyneux
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781642592139

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The Dialectics of Art by John Molyneux Pdf

To the question of &lquo;what is art?&rquo;, it is often simply responded that art is whatever is produced by the artist. For John Molyneux, this clearly circular answer is deeply unsatisfying. In a tour de force spanning renaissance Italy and the Dutch Republic to contemporary leading figures, The Dialectics of Art instead approaches its subject matter as a distinct field of creative human labour that emerges alongside and in opposition to the alienation and commodification brought about by capitalism. The pieces and individuals Molyneux examines — from Michelangelo’s Slaves to Rembrandts Jewish Bride to the vast drip paintings of Jackson Pollock – are presented as embodying the social contradictions of their times, giving art an inherently political relevance. In its relationship of creative and dialectical tension to prevailing social relationships and norms, such art points beyond the existing order of things, hinting at a potential future society not based on alienated labour in which creative production becomes the property and practice of all.

Author : Anouar Abdel-Malek
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1981-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791494073

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Social Dialectics by Anouar Abdel-Malek Pdf

In Nation and Revolution, Anouar Abdel-Malek examines the dynamics of power and social change and shows how the super-imposition of new geo-politics on the existing order of national states has brought about the primacy of the political in contemporary history. Taking issue with those who maintain that the Western proletariat constitutes the main impetus for social change today, Abdel-Malek argues that the united front historically necessary to break the hold of hegemonism will be based on a new "East Wind" combining mighty waves of national liberation and social revolution.

Author : Jennifer Ring
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1991-09-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438417387

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Modern Political Theory and Contemporary Feminism by Jennifer Ring Pdf