Between specters of war and visions of peace : dialogic political theory and the challenges of politics / Gerald M. Mara.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019Description: 1 online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780190903947 (ebook) :Subject(s): Political science -- Philosophy
| Political science -- History | Politics and war -- Philosophy | Peace -- Political aspectsAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780190903916DDC classification: 320.01 LOC classification: JA71 | .M1238 2019Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: Examining how ideas of war and peace have functioned as frames of reference within the history of political theory, this book features five thematically focused chapters that pair (in order) Schmitt and Derrida, Aquinas and Machiavelli, Hobbes and Kant, Hegel and Nietzsche, and Thucydides and Plato. The book's substantive argument is that attempts to establish either war or peace as dominant intellectual perspectives obscure too much of political life. The book argues for a style of political theory committed more to questioning than to closure. It challenges two powerful currents in contemporary political philosophy: the verdict that premodern or metaphysical texts cannot speak to modern and postmodern societies, and the insistence that all forms of political theory be some form of democratic theory.
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Previously issued in print: 2019.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Examining how ideas of war and peace have functioned as frames of reference within the history of political theory, this book features five thematically focused chapters that pair (in order) Schmitt and Derrida, Aquinas and Machiavelli, Hobbes and Kant, Hegel and Nietzsche, and Thucydides and Plato. The book's substantive argument is that attempts to establish either war or peace as dominant intellectual perspectives obscure too much of political life. The book argues for a style of political theory committed more to questioning than to closure. It challenges two powerful currents in contemporary political philosophy: the verdict that premodern or metaphysical texts cannot speak to modern and postmodern societies, and the insistence that all forms of political theory be some form of democratic theory.
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