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Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics

By Bonnie Honig

Book information

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Year
1993
ISBN
9780801480720, 9781501712968
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
432 kB (442667 bytes)
Pages
304\0
Time added
2022-08-15 13:49:59

Description

In this book, Bonnie Honig rethinks that established relation between politics and political theory. From liberal to communitarian to republican, political theorists of opposing positions often treat political theory less as an exploration of politics than as a series of devices of its displacement. Honig characterizes Kant, Rawls, and Sandel as virtue theorists of politics, arguing that they rely on principles of right, rationality, community, and law to protect their political theories from the conflict and uncertainty of political reality. Drawing on Nietzsche and Arendt, as well as Machiavelli and Derrida, Honig explores an alternative politics of virtù, which treats the disruptions of political order as valued sites of democratic freedom and individuality.

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