Politics and the concept of the political : the political imagination / James Wiley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wiley, James, 1956- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Physical Description:

300 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

A recent trend in contemporary western political theory is to criticize it for implicitly trying to "conquer," "displace" or "moralize" politics. James Wiley's book takes the "next step," from criticizing contemporary political theory, to showing what a more "politics-centered" political theory would look like by exploring the meaning and value of politics in the writings of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, Paul Ricoeur, Hannah Arendt, Sheldon Wolin, Claude Lefort, and Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. These political theorists all use the concept of "the political" to explain the value of politics and defend it from its detractors. They represent state-centered, republic-centered and society-centered conceptions of politics, as well as realist, authoritarian, idealist, republican, populist and radical democratic traditions of political thought. This book compares these theorists and traditions of "the political" in order to defend politics from its critics and to contribute to the development of a politics-centered political theory. Politics and the Concept of the Political will be a useful resource to general audiences as well as to specialists in political theory. s-centered political theory. Politics and the Concept of the Political will be a useful resource to general audiences as well as to specialists in political theory.

Contents:

The Status of politics and the political

Realism : Weber

Absolutism, fascism and authoritarianism : Schmitt

Idealism : Ricoeur

Public and private, self and world : Arendt

The social, the political and democracy : Wolin

Economics, culture and the political : Lefort, Laclau and Mouffe

Theories of the political, political theory and politics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138185814

1138185817

9781138185821

1138185825

OCLC:

936349821