Handbook Political Theory.pdf

considered intuitions while structuring them so as to bring out their internal logic constitutes a powerful argument in favor of ...

the present. It is at this point that they diVer most sharply, not only from much liberal theory, but also from those forms of c ...

the diVerent orientations and vocabularies that deWne post-structuralist and liberal political theory are not completely irrecon ...

his or her own ‘‘Wnal vocabulary’’ and also aware that such vocabularies can neither be justiWed nor refuted by argument but onl ...

concepts associated with kinship, and especially the concept of friendship (Aristotle), in terms of which democracy wasWrst deWn ...

of thinking, acting, and speaking, or attempt to connect such departures with purportedly universal tendencies of society or his ...

virtues. In this sense, in response to Habermas’s claim that he is an anti- Enlightenment thinker, Derrida aYrms his belief in p ...

important dimension of democratic politics than the macropolitical sphere of public reasons and party politics. Since their theo ...

the undesirability of having a ‘‘good conscience’’ about established ways of acting and thinking. In other words, he points to t ...

states of aVairs. Redescription rather than argument is the only appropriate method of criticism of an existing vocabulary and a ...

to the ways in which deterritorialized elements recombine and enter into new relations in the constitution of a new assemblage o ...

existing forms of thought and practice (Deleuze and Guattari 1994 , 32 – 3 ). In this manner, like Derridean deconstruction, the ...

absolute hospitality requires that I open up my home and that I give not only to the foreigner (provided with a family name, wit ...

now consider justiWed may not be so before diVerent audiences in the future. In the same way, for Derrida, the irreducible gap b ...

References Bernstein,R. J. 2003. Rorty’s inspirational liberalism. Pp. 124 – 38 inRichard Rorty, ed. C. Guignon and D. R. Hiley. ...

—— 1996. What is critique? In J. Schmidt (ed.),What is Enlightenment?,pp. 382 – 98. Los Angeles: University of California Press. ...

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involved with exploring the ethos and strategies that should animate and guide this adventure.’’ Likewise, Gunnell argues that t ...

understanding that diVerence will never come together into a single coherent unity, as the philosophical absolutists desired. Ac ...

motivated by the same recognition of plurality, both philosophically and in civil society, there was never agreement on state de ...