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

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

Foundations of American Political Thought

Foundations of American Political Thought
Author: Alin Fumurescu
Publisher:
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2021-07-29
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1108489184

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

Contemporary Political Thought

Contemporary Political Thought
Author: Alan Finlayson
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 696
Release: 2003-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780814727324

Contemporary Political Theory is a foundation textbook in political thought.

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

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.

Re-Grounding Cosmopolitanism

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

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.

The Political Theory of the American Founding

The Political Theory of the American Founding
Author: Thomas G. West
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2017-04-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 110714048X

This book provides a complete overview of the Founders' natural rights theory and its policy implications.

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

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.

The Moral Foundations of Politics

The Moral Foundations of Politics
Author: Ian Shapiro
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2012-10-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0300189753

When do governments merit our allegiance, and when should they be denied it? Ian Shapiro explores this most enduring of political dilemmas in this innovative and engaging book. Building on his highly popular Yale courses, Professor Shapiro evaluates the main contending accounts of the sources of political legitimacy. Starting with theorists of the Enlightenment, he examines the arguments put forward by utilitarians, Marxists, and theorists of the social contract. Next he turns to the anti-Enlightenment tradition that stretches from Edmund Burke to contemporary post-modernists. In the last part of the book Shapiro examines partisans and critics of democracy from Plato’s time until our own. He concludes with an assessment of democracy’s strengths and limitations as the font of political legitimacy. The book offers a lucid and accessible introduction to urgent ongoing conversations about the sources of political allegiance.

Thinking Antagonism

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

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