Screen LibraryPolitical Ontology and International Political Thought : Voiding a Pluralist World /
This book challenges received notions of ontology in political theory and international relations by offering a psychoanalytically informed critique of depoliticisation in prominent liberal, post-liberal, dialogic and agonistic approaches to pluralism in world politics. Paipais locates the temptatio...
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Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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International Political Theory
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57069-7 |
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This book challenges received notions of ontology in political theory and international relations by offering a psychoanalytically informed critique of depoliticisation in prominent liberal, post-liberal, dialogic and agonistic approaches to pluralism in world politics. Paipais locates the temptation of depoliticisation in their labouring under the fundamental fantasy of various guises of foundationalism (in the form of either political anthropology or ontology as in the last instance ground) or, conversely, anti-foundationalism (the denial of all grounds, yet still operating within a foundationalist imaginary). He argues, instead, for a formal political ontology of the void (against historicism) shot through an incarnate messianic nihilism (against ethicism and teleological forms of politics). In so doing, the author offers critical readings of the messianic nihilism of Benjamin, Agamben, Taubes and i ek by problematising the antinomian tendencies in their respective political theologies. The book argues for a version of i ek s Badiouian politics of militancy supplemented by a proper participatory understanding of St Paul s messianic meontology and incarnational Christology as a means to reconceptualise the nexus between subjectivity, universality and political action in world politics. It will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations theory, political theory, critical social theory and political theology. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (XIV, 241 pages) : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9781137570697 |
| Index Number: | JC11 |
| CLC: | D0 |
| Contents: | Introduction: Ontology and depoliticisation in a pluralist world -- PART I: A Phenomenology of Depoliticisation in Theorising a Pluralist World -- Chapter 1: Depoliticisation in liberal and post-liberal ontologies -- Chapter 2: Depoliticisation in critical dialogic ontologies -- Chapter 3:Depoliticisation in agonistic ontologies -- PART II: Political Ontology and the Future of Politics -- Chapter 4: From stasis to tragedy: ontology and phenomenology of political difference -- Chapter 5: Traversing the fantasy and the morning after : from political ontology to theopolitical meontology -- Epilogue: The politics of (im)pure criticism -- Bibliography -- Index. |