Reinterpreting the political :: continental philosophy and political theory /

Rereads classical figures in continental thought, takes up current topics in the legacy of political theory, and analyzes and evaluates Foucault's work as a prime manifestation of the complicated modern interface between truth and power, institution and liberation.The task of reinterpretation a...

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Weitere Verfasser: Langsdorf, Lenore, 1943- (HerausgeberIn), Watson, Stephen H., 1951- (HerausgeberIn), Smith, Karen A. (Karen Anne), 1965- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, ©1998.
Schriftenreihe:Selected studies in phenomenology and existential philosophy ; 20.
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Zusammenfassung:Rereads classical figures in continental thought, takes up current topics in the legacy of political theory, and analyzes and evaluates Foucault's work as a prime manifestation of the complicated modern interface between truth and power, institution and liberation.The task of reinterpretation arises from recognition, within continental philosophy, of a certain abandonment of political philosophy for historicism or a scientistic search for laws. Contemporary debate over the death of the possibility of the subject now focuses on the links among knowledge, virtue and power. As a result, the ancient problem of the institution of the form of the political becomes linked with struggles intrinsic to the task of representation and recognition. The problem now becomes one of understanding the meaning of judgment, autonomy, and consensus in the midst of the fragmentation of the hierarchies that structure the political, and have structured the thinking (from Plato to Hegel) that we identify as metaphysical. Such fragmentation doubtless is the ancient inheritance of democracy, but now without the metaphysical assurance of a transcendental authority, whether resident in nature, community, or the monarch as embodiment of the sacred. Perhaps it is in Foucault's work, more than anywhere else, that the investigation of the complicated modern interface between truth and power, and institution and liberation, occurs.In reinterpreting the political, recognition of ideological forces in the legacy of modernity in its theoretical and institutional forms cannot be escaped--particularly in recognizing the underdetermined character of the subject matter. This collection represents rich examples of such reinterpretations.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xix, 330 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes chapter notes with bibliographical references at chapter ends, and index.
ISBN:0585059187
9780585059181

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