Umfang:
1 online resource (237 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781441146113
Serie:
Continuum Studies in Philosophy Ser.
Inhalt:
Rousseau and Radical Democracy presents the first comprehensive examination of Rousseau's founding role in, and continuing relevance for, recent and influential theories of democracy. Kevin Inston demonstrates the actuality of Rousseau's thinking through an analysis of his deep connection with the groundbreaking work of contemporary European thinkers, including Lefort, Laclau and Mouffe. The book affirms Rousseau's centrality for current debates in democratic thought by showing how, contrary to common assumptions, his writings emphasise the openness and difference necessary for a dynamic mode of democracy committed to extending the principles of freedom and equality. By connecting Rousseau's philosophy with present-day thinking, Inston stresses the theoretical consistency of his political thought against those influential deconstructive readings of his work by thinkers such as Derrida and De Man. This book argues that the ambiguities and tensions in Rousseau actually form part of the logic of Rousseau's rigorous reflection on democracy that accepts the inherent incompleteness and uncertainty of any political project as the condition of freedom and change.
Inhalt:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Reference Key to Cited Works -- Introduction -- Part 1 Rethinking the Political: Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality -- Chapter 1 The Negativity of Nature -- Clearing the Grounds of the Social -- Rousseau's Post-Foundationalism: His Critique of Natural Law -- Denaturalizing Society -- Society as a Discursive Construct -- De Man's Political Pessimism: The Ambiguity of Language -- The Political Effects of Discourse -- The Importance of Naming -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Perfectible Man as the Subject of Lack -- Human Division: 'Man Studying Man' -- The Subject of Lack -- Identity and Difference -- Pity and Difference -- Language and Identity -- Perfectibility: Man's Open-ended Identity -- Perfectibility as the Condition of Ethics and Politics -- Chapter 3 Constructing Political Identities -- Antagonism and Social Formation -- Laclau's and Mouffe's Theory of Antagonism -- The Antagonistic Split between Self and Other -- The Undecidability of Being and Appearing -- Surplus Production: Social Alienation -- The Specious Contract: A Critique of Utopianism -- Discourse and Being: A Critique of Ideology -- The Constitutive Force of Alienation -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 An Ethics of Democracy -- The Deadlock of Civil Relations: The 'Joys of Domination' -- Joyless Domination: The Second State of Nature -- The Abyss of Freedom -- Traversing the Fantasy -- Man's Moral Openness -- An Ethics of Pity -- The Limits of Pity -- Pity and an Ethos of Contestation -- Conclusion -- Part 2 Towards a Radical Democracy: Rousseau's Social Contract -- Chapter 5 Rethinking the Universal -- Rousseau's Critique of Strict Universalism -- Social Plurality -- Relational Identities -- Protecting Plurality: The Civil Religion -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Constructing the General Will -- Disagreement and Agreement.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781441157812
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781441157812
Sprache:
Englisch
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