The Nature of Political Theory

310 The Nature of Political Theory one which facilitated and encouraged wide-ranging open discussion. The democratic and plurali ...

Circular Foundations 311 Further, for both the latter theorists, there is a self-reflectivity within language use and an ability ...

312 The Nature of Political Theory Habermas wants to make here, one needs to reiterate and underscore the basic thesis of his ea ...

Circular Foundations 313 own notion of communicative reason. Sometimes they appear to be very similar, or, ideally, using the sa ...

314 The Nature of Political Theory it is absolutely absurd to regard the concrete factors of work and politics as outside the sc ...

Circular Foundations 315 logically performative contradiction of those who reasonably, but sceptically, attack universal reason. ...

316 The Nature of Political Theory economic, social, and evolutionaryconditionsin which language develops and is used, that need ...

Circular Foundations 317 As Gadamer notes, linguisticality is deeply embedded in the whole ‘sociality of human existence’, Gada ...

318 The Nature of Political Theory be absolutized and fixed.... The principle of hermeneutics simply means that we should try to ...

Conclusion The central theme of this book has been an examination of the nature of political theory. This nature has been viewed ...

320 The Nature of Political Theory nature, and the like, there was an attempt to resurrect aspects of a more immanent foundation ...

Conclusion 321 who are of key significance, are Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger. It is the anti-foundationalist writing ...

322 The Nature of Political Theory inescapably, brings into play our prejudices and traditions. There is an incessant reflexivit ...

Conclusion 323 also recognizes that certain questions might well be unanswerable, or imply multiple answers. This draws our atte ...

324 The Nature of Political Theory pointless to mull over the nature of theory. The point is to ‘do theory’, not to think about ...

Conclusion 325 century. The standard criticism is that foundational concerns foreclose, falsify or constrain discourse, language ...

326 The Nature of Political Theory foundational readings can be re-described as a concern with political metaphysics. In this re ...

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328 Bibliography Barry, Brian (1995a). ‘Spherical Justice and Global Justice’, in D. Miller and M. Walzer (eds.), Pluralism, Jus ...

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