Post-Foundational Political Thought

Post-Foundational Political Thought
Author: Oliver Marchart
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2007-07-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0748630686

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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

Politics and the Political

Politics and the Political
Author: Oliver Marchart
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre:
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Post-Foundational Theories of Democracy

Post-Foundational Theories of Democracy
Author: Oliver Marchart
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2015-07
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780748683024

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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.

Re-Grounding Cosmopolitanism

Re-Grounding Cosmopolitanism
Author: Tamara Caraus
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2015-11-19
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317430417

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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.

Towards an Improper Politics

Towards an Improper Politics
Author: Devenney Mark Devenney
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2020-01-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1474454062

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This book systematically introduces the idea of an improper politics. Introducing a conceptual vocabulary, it engages with the politics of the proper, propriety and property from a post-foundational perspective. Mark Devenney argues that this triad is central to understanding the maintenance of global inequality, both economic and political. He characterises democratic politics as improper, challenging the proper bounds of reason, accepted behaviours, and the policing of proper order. The conceptualisation of democracy as an improper practice of equality accords a dignity to forms of politics often deemed marginal.

Thinking Antagonism

Thinking Antagonism
Author: Oliver Marchart
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2018-07-02
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1474413323

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

The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory

The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory
Author: John S Dryzek
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 898
Release: 2008-06-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199548439

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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.

Arendt, Levinas and a Politics of Relationality

Arendt, Levinas and a Politics of Relationality
Author: Anya Topolski
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2015-05-21
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1783483431

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Born in Eastern Europe, educated in the West under the guidance of Martin Heidegger and the phenomenological tradition, and forced to flee during the Holocaust because of their Jewish identity, it should come as no surprise that Emmanuel Levinas and Hannah Arendt’s ideas intersect in an important way. This book demonstrates for the first time the significance of a dialogue between Levinas’ ethics of alterity and Arendt’s politics of plurality. Anya Topolski brings their respective projects into dialogue by means of the notion of relationality, a concept inspired by the Judaic tradition that is prominent in both thinker’s work. The book explores questions relating to the relationship between ethics and politics, the Judaic contribution to rethinking the meaning of the political after the Shoah, and the role of relationality and responsibility for politics. The result is an alternative conception of the political based on the ideas of plurality and alterity that aims to be relational, inclusive, and empowering.

Politics Without Vision

Politics Without Vision
Author: Tracy B. Strong
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 423
Release: 2012-04-20
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0226777464

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Politics without Vision takes up the thought of seven influential thinkers, each of whom attempted to construct a political solution to this problem: Nietzsche, Weber, Freud, Lenin, Schmitt, Heidegger, and Arendt. None of these theorists were liberals nor, excepting possibly Arendt, were they democrats—and some might even be said to have served as handmaidens to totalitarianism. And all to a greater or lesser extent shared the common conviction that the institutions and practices of liberalism are inadequate to the demands and stresses of the present times. In examining their thought, Strong acknowledges the political evil that some of their ideas served to foster but argues that these were not necessarily the only paths their explorations could have taken. By uncovering the turning points in their thought—and the paths not taken—Strong strives to develop a political theory that can avoid, and perhaps help explain, the mistakes of the past while furthering the democratic impulse.

Conflictual Aesthetics

Conflictual Aesthetics
Author: Oliver Marchart
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-12-10
Genre: Art
ISBN: 3956792041

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A new political theory of art and artistic praxis. Leaping into current debates about the political efficacy of art, the essays in Conflictual Aesthetics critique the supposition that all art is inherently political. Opposed to the political art defended by art world functionaries that hides behind “simplistic complexity,” Oliver Marchart argues for a straightforwardly political theory of art and artistic praxis. At the intersection of art theory and radical politics, he proposes an aesthetics of agitating, propagating, and organizing, through which he problematizes and evaluates art in relation to activism or political propaganda, and addresses the radical potential of dance, theater, artistic re- and pre-enactments, public art, the curator, and the biennial.