The Nature of Political Theory

230 The Nature of Political Theory Asian values-argument would not necessarily directly associate their idea with postcolonial ...

Segmented Foundations and Pluralism 231 The preliminary grounds for this argument had already been sketched within the philo- s ...

8 Standing Problems Chapter Seven dwelt on the idea that conventionalist argument was pushed back from nationalist and communita ...

Standing Problems 233 The discussion will begin with a substantive discussion of Nietzsche and Heidegger, both of whom in differ ...

234 The Nature of Political Theory to Nietzsche. He saw himself, to some extent, as a materialist or extreme empiricist. For Nie ...

Standing Problems 235 that we always need to be on our guard against the philosopher’s idea of a ‘pure, will-less, painless, tim ...

236 The Nature of Political Theory also premised his whole philosophical system on a resonant distinction between the vital proc ...

Standing Problems 237 but they are still pathways to reality. Thus, in Bergson it is via ‘intuition’, in Freud it is through the ...

238 The Nature of Political Theory of detailed self-examination of how the self is formed historically. The genealogy of morals ...

Standing Problems 239 says ‘yes’ to a dedivinized reality. This is the agent who grasps with joy their own will to power and reg ...

240 The Nature of Political Theory being’. The latter might be described as a move from metaphysics to ontology. Each of these d ...

Standing Problems 241 world, and the ground of the world, that is, of beings as a whole’. Thus, he continues, significantly, ‘Ev ...

242 The Nature of Political Theory There are many questions to ask here—not least what on earth is Being?^11 The sep- aration be ...

Standing Problems 243 remains caught in a humanism that centres on man or humanity as the core of what is real. Heidegger’s alte ...

244 The Nature of Political Theory of man’. Thus, in this analysis Derrida claims that Heidegger takes us back to human- ism and ...

Standing Problems 245 infinite signification. It is worth remarking here—as is emphasized by most post- modern writers—that lite ...

246 The Nature of Political Theory It is not surprising in this context that Derrida accuses Heidegger of posing as the ‘persona ...

Standing Problems 247 to power and eternal recurrence should not be viewed as metaphysical categories or essences. For Derrida, ...

248 The Nature of Political Theory a critique of the way Western discourses (from the Renaissance to the present) have ordered k ...

Standing Problems 249 The issue of power is crucial here. Power is not overt Hobbesian physical or inten- tional force or threat ...