Western philosophy has been dominated by the concept or the
idea-the belief that there is one sovereign notion or singular
principle that can make reality explicable and bring all that
exists under its sway. In modern politics, this role is played by
ideology. Left, right, or center, political schools of thought
share a metaphysics of simplification. We internalize a dominant,
largely unnoticeable framework, oblivious to complex, plural, and
occasionally conflicting or mutually contradictory explanations for
what is the case. In this groundbreaking work, Michael Marder
proposes a new methodology for political science and philosophy,
one which he terms "categorial thinking." In contrast to the
concept, no category alone can exhaust the meaning of anything:
categories are so many folds, complications, respectful of
multiplicity. Ranging from classical Aristotelian and Kantian
philosophies to phenomenology and contemporary politics, Marder's
book offers readers a theoretical toolbox for the interpretation of
political phenomena, processes, institutions, and ideas. His
categorial apparatus encompasses political temporality and
spatiality; the revolutionary and conservative modalities of
political actuality, possibility, and necessity; quantitative and
qualitative approaches to the study of political reality; the
meaning of political relations; and various senses of political
being. Under this lens, the political appears not as a singular
concept but as a family of categories, allowing room for new,
plural, and often antagonistic ideas about the state, the people,
sovereignty, and power.
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