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Cynical Suspicions and Platonist Pretentions : A Critique of Contemporary Political Theory.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Social and Critical Theory SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (247 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004364929
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cynical Suspicions and Platonist PretentionsDDC classification:
  • 320.01
LOC classification:
  • JA71 .M348 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- 1 Naked in the Marketplace -- 2 The Courage and Scourge of Truth -- Excursus: Sloterdijk on a motorbike! (or, Zen and the Art of Neo-Kynicism) -- 3 The Resistible Rise of Rawlsian Reasonableness -- 4 Thomas Pogge: Ethics and the Ire of the Beholden -- 5 Nancy Fraser's Subaltern Weltbürger Blues -- Excursus: The Poverty of Agonism -- 6 Jürgen Habermas' Postmetaphysical Paralysis? -- 7 Defacing the Political Currency: Cynicism as a Normative Perspective for Critical Theory -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: In Cynical Suspicions and Platonist Pretentions, John McGuire conducts a critical analysis of contemporary political theory with a view to facilitating a less reductive understanding of political disaffection.
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Intro -- Contents -- 1 Naked in the Marketplace -- 2 The Courage and Scourge of Truth -- Excursus: Sloterdijk on a motorbike! (or, Zen and the Art of Neo-Kynicism) -- 3 The Resistible Rise of Rawlsian Reasonableness -- 4 Thomas Pogge: Ethics and the Ire of the Beholden -- 5 Nancy Fraser's Subaltern Weltbürger Blues -- Excursus: The Poverty of Agonism -- 6 Jürgen Habermas' Postmetaphysical Paralysis? -- 7 Defacing the Political Currency: Cynicism as a Normative Perspective for Critical Theory -- Bibliography -- Index.

In Cynical Suspicions and Platonist Pretentions, John McGuire conducts a critical analysis of contemporary political theory with a view to facilitating a less reductive understanding of political disaffection.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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