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Political Ontology and International Political Thought - Voiding a Pluralist World (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Political Ontology and International Political Thought - Voiding a Pluralist World (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: International Political Theory
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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 Zizek by problematising the antinomian tendencies in
their respective political theologies. The book argues for a
version of Zizek'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.
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