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Democracy and ontology : agonism between political liberalism, Foucault, and psychoanalysis /

This book investigates the relationship between liberal democracies and ontology, that is, philosophical claims about the constitution of agents and the social world. Many philosophers argue that ontology needs to be avoided in political and legal philosophy. In fact, political liberalism, a highly...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rosenthal, Irena (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.
Colección:European Academy of Legal Theory Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • I. Democracy
  • II. Ontology
  • III. Political Liberalism, Foucault and Psychoanalysis
  • IV. Research Questions
  • V. Overview of Chapters
  • 2. Politicising Political Liberalism
  • I. Introduction
  • II. The Democratic Politicisation of Political Philosophy
  • III. A 'Freestanding' Justification of Justice
  • IV. Politicising Political Liberalism
  • V. Conclusion
  • 3. The Stimulation of Enlightened Contest
  • I. Introduction
  • II. 'A Historical Ontology of Ourselves'
  • III. A Historical Ontology of Political Philosophy
  • IV. Foucault's Ethos of 'Stimulating Contest'
  • V. The Stimulation of Enlightened Contest
  • VI. Agonic Democracy
  • VII. Conclusion
  • 4. Agonic Democracy and the Exercise of Rights
  • I. Introduction
  • II. The Governmentalised State
  • III. A Political Liberalist Approach to State-sanctioned Exclusions
  • IV. The Ontological Remnants in Tomasi's Social Theory
  • V. Politicising Tomasi's Concept of Legal Culture
  • VI. Conclusion
  • 5. Transit: Renegotiating Political Liberalism and Agonic Democracy
  • 6. Drained by a Democratic 'Burn-out': The Emotional Burdens of Agonic Democracy
  • I. Introduction
  • II. A Democratic 'Burn-out'
  • III. A Psychoanalytic Reading of Civic Loss
  • IV. Emotional Boundary-marking
  • V. Conclusion
  • 7. Conclusion
  • I. Politicising the Political Liberalist Ontology
  • II. An Alternative Ontology of Democratic Politics
  • III. The Democratic Politicisation of Ontology