Across the Great Divide : Between Analytic and Continental Political Theory / Jeremy Arnold.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arnold, Jeremy, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Continental philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The division between analytic and continental political theory remains as sharp as it is wide, rendering basic problems seemingly intractable. Across the Great Divide offers an accessible and compelling account of how this split has shaped the field of political philosophy and suggests means of addressing it. Rather than advocating a synthesis of these philosophical modes, author Jeremy Arnold argues for aporetic cross-tradition theorizing: bringing together both traditions in order to show how each is at once necessary and limited. Across the Great Divide engages with a range of fundamental political concepts and theorists—from state legitimacy and violence in the work of Stanley Cavell, to personal freedom and its civic institutionalization in Philip Pettit and Hannah Arendt, and justice in John Rawls and Jacques Derrida—not only illustrating the shortcomings of theoretical synthesis but also demonstrating a productive alternative. By outlining the failings of "political realism" as a synthetic cross-tradition approach to political theory and by modeling an aporetic mode of engagement, Arnold shows how we can better understand and address the pressing political issues of civil freedom and state justice today.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Political Realism, Legitimacy, and State Violence

2 Cavell, Consent, and State Violence

3 Pettit and Arendt on Freedom I

4 Pettit and Arendt on Freedom II

5 Rawls and Derrida on Justice

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9781503612150

1503612155

OCLC:

1178770274