Post Foundational Political Thought

Author : Oliver Marchart
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780748630684

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Post-Foundational Political Thought by Oliver Marchart Pdf

A wide-ranging overview of the emergence of post-foundationalism and a survey of the work of its key contemporary exponents.This book presents the first systematic coverage of the conceptual difference between 'politics' (the practice of conventional politics: the political system or political forms of action) and 'the political' (a much more radical aspect which cannot be restricted to the realms of institutional politics). It is also the first introductory overview of post-foundationalism and the tradition of 'left Heideggerianism': the political thought of contemporary theorists who make frequent use of the idea of political difference: Jean-Luc Nancy, Claude Lefort, Alain Badiou and Ernesto Laclau. After an overview of current trends in social post-foundationalism and a genealogical chapter on the historical emergence of the difference between the concepts of 'politics' and 'the political', the work of individual theorists is presented and discussed at length. Individual chapters are presented

Author : Oliver Marchart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 074868302X

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Post-Foundational Theories of Democracy by Oliver Marchart Pdf

Combines the heated debates between post-structuralist critics and defenders of democracy to create a new theory Are we living in post-democratic times - has democracy turned into an empty institutional shell? The upsurge of democratic revolutions and revolts in the West and the Arab world begs to differ. Does this mean there is a political alternative to existing democracy, or has it become impossible to step out of the 'democratic horizon'? Approaching these unfolding historical developments from the perspective of post-foundational democratic thought, Oliver Marchart creates a new model that reconciles both of these viewpoints.

Author : Tamara Caraus,Elena Paris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317430414

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Re-Grounding Cosmopolitanism by Tamara Caraus,Elena Paris Pdf

Leading experts and rising stars in the field explore whether cosmopolitanism becomes impossible in the theoretical framework that assumed the absence of a final ground. The questions that the volume addresses refer exactly to the foundational predicament that characterizes cosmopolitanism: How is it possible to think cosmopolitanism after the critique of foundations? Can cosmopolitanism be conceived without an ‘ultimate’ ground? Can we construct theories of cosmopolitanism without some certainties about the entire world or about the cosmos? Should we continue to look for foundations of cosmopolitan rights, norms and values? Alternatively, should we aim towards cosmopolitanism without foundations or towards cosmopolitanism with ‘contingent foundations’? Could cosmopolitanism be the very attempt to come to terms with the failure of ultimate grounds? Written accessibly and contributing to key debates on political philosophy, and social and political thought, this volume advances the concept of post-foundational cosmopolitanism by bridging the polarised approaches to the concept.

Author : Oliver Marchart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:52782615

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Politics and the Political by Oliver Marchart Pdf

Author : Alin Fumurescu,Anna Marisa Schön
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108489188

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Foundations of American Political Thought by Alin Fumurescu,Anna Marisa Schön Pdf

This collection of primary sources from the founding period covers the unique combination of theoretical influences in American political thought.

Author : Oliver Marchart
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474413329

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Thinking Antagonism by Oliver Marchart Pdf

A systematic treatment of Hume's conception of imagination in all the main topics of his philosophy.

Author : John S. Dryzek,Bonnie Honig,Anne Phillips
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 898 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199548439

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The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory by John S. Dryzek,Bonnie Honig,Anne Phillips Pdf

Oxford Handbooks of Political Science are the essential guide to the state of political science today. With engaging contributions from 51 major international scholars, the Oxford Handbook of Political Theory provides the key point of reference for anyone working in political theory and beyond.

Author : Roberto Esposito
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781509546442

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Instituting Thought by Roberto Esposito Pdf

This new book by the Italian philosopher Roberto Esposito addresses the profound crisis of contemporary politics and examines some of the philosophical approaches that have been used to try to understand and go beyond this crisis. Two approaches have been particularly influential – one indebted to the thought of Martin Heidegger, the other indebted to Gilles Deleuze. While opposed in their political thrust and orientation, both approaches remain trapped within the political ontology that has framed our conceptual language for some time. In order to move beyond this political ontology, Esposito turns to a third approach that he characterizes as ‘instituting thought’. Indebted to the work of the French political philosopher Claude Lefort, this third approach recognizes that the road to reconstructing a productive relation between ontology and politics, one that is both realistic and innovative, lies in instituting praxis. Building on this insight, Esposito conceptualizes social being as neither univocal nor plurivocal but as cross-cut by the dual semantics of political conflict. This new book by one of the most original European philosophers writing today will be of great interest to students and scholars in philosophy, social and political theory and the humanities generally.

Author : Alan Finlayson
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0814727328

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Contemporary Political Thought by Alan Finlayson Pdf

Contemporary Political Theory is a foundation textbook in political thought.

Author : Claudio Minca,Rory Rowan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134448166

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On Schmitt and Space by Claudio Minca,Rory Rowan Pdf

This book represents the first comprehensive study of the influential German legal and political thinker Carl Schmitt’s spatial thought, offering the first systematic examination from a Geographic perspective of one of the most important political thinkers of the twentieth century. It charts the development of Schmitt’s spatial thinking from his early work on secularization and the emergence of the modern European state to his post war analysis of the spatial basis of global order and international law, whilst situating his thought in relation to his changing biographical and intellectual context, controversial involvement in Weimar politics and disastrous support for the Nazi regime. It argues that spatial concepts play a crucial structural role throughout Schmitt’s work, from his well-known analyses of sovereign power and states of exception to his often overlooked spatial history of modernity. Locating a fundamental relationship between space and ‘the political’ lies at the core of his thought. The book explores the critical insight that Schmitt’s spatial thought bears on some of the key political questions of the twentieth century whilst tracking his profound and enduring influence on key debates on sovereignty, international relations, war and the nature of world order at the start of the twenty first century.

Author : Iain MacKenzie
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783839439074

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Resistance and the Politics of Truth by Iain MacKenzie Pdf

`The truth will set you free' is a maxim central to both theories and practices of resistance. Nonetheless, it is a claim that has come under fire from an array of critical perspectives in the second half of the 20th century. Iain MacKenzie analyses two of the most compelling of these perspectives: the poststructuralist politics of truth formulated by Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze and the alternative post-foundational account of truth and militancy developed by Alain Badiou. He argues that a critically oriented version of poststructuralism provides both an understanding of the deeply entwined nature of truth and power and a compelling account of the creative practices that may sustain resistance.

Author : Virpi Malin,Jonathan Murphy,Marjo Siltaoja
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781781909553

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Getting Things Done by Virpi Malin,Jonathan Murphy,Marjo Siltaoja Pdf

This book explores the possibility of a progressive and transformative management which, while grounded in the analytic tradition and values of CMS, also confronts practical demands of meeting social needs.

Author : Vassilios Paipais
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137570697

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Political Ontology and International Political Thought by Vassilios Paipais Pdf

This book challenges received notions of ontology in political theory and international relations by offering a psychoanalytically informed critique of depoliticisation in prominent liberal, post-liberal, dialogic and agonistic approaches to pluralism in world politics. Paipais locates the temptation of depoliticisation in their labouring under the fundamental fantasy of various guises of foundationalism (in the form of either political anthropology or ontology as ‘in the last instance’ ground) or, conversely, anti-foundationalism (the denial of all grounds, yet still operating within a foundationalist imaginary). He argues, instead, for a formal political ontology of the void (against historicism) shot through an ‘incarnate’ messianic nihilism (against ethicism and teleological forms of politics). In so doing, the author offers critical readings of the messianic nihilism of Benjamin, Agamben, Taubes and Žižek by problematising the antinomian tendencies in their respective political theologies. The book argues for a version of Žižek’s Badiouian politics of militancy supplemented by a proper participatory understanding of St Paul’s messianic meontology and incarnational Christology as a means to reconceptualise the nexus between subjectivity, universality and political action in world politics. It will be of interest to students and scholars of International Relations theory, political theory, critical social theory and political theology.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781913724269

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Why I Write by George Orwell Pdf

George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times

Author : Friederike Landau,Lucas Pohl,Nikolai Roskamm
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839450734

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[Un]Grounding by Friederike Landau,Lucas Pohl,Nikolai Roskamm Pdf

Post-foundationalism departs from the assumption that there is no ground, necessity, or objective rationale for human political existence or action. The edited volume puts contemporary debates arising from the »spatial turn« in cultural and social sciences in a dialogue with post-foundational theories of space and place to devise post-foundationalism as radical approach to urban studies. This approach enables us to think about space not only as socially produced, but also as crucially marked by conflict, radical negativity, and absence. The contributors undertake a (re-)reading of key spatial and/or post-foundational theorists to introduce their respective understandings of politics and space, and offer examples of post-foundational empirical analyses of urban protests, spatial occupation, and everyday life.