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This exciting new textbook presents a clear framework for students
to understand how themes and issues in political thought have
emerged and developed throughout the 20th Century. Charting the
progression from the preoccupation with the boundaries of the
modern state, through to the current debates on rights, identity
and justice; the three sections of the book enable the ideas of
significant political thinkers to unfold through a telling of the
key political events that gave a social context for their thought:
Section I: The Inter-War Debate: Weber, Gramsci and Schmitt Section
II: Post-War Debates: Arendt, Oakeshott, De Beauvoir and Adorno
Section III: Contemporary Debates: Rawls, Nozick, Kymlicka and
Foucault Written in an accessible and concise format, features
include: 'rewind' and 'fast-forward' indicators to easily guide
students around the text discussion points, revision notes and
further reading in each chapter informative text boxes to highlight
key concepts, people and events. By exploring an often ignored
relationship in political thought, the influence of thought upon
historical change and the influence of historical change upon
theory, this text delivers new and exciting angles from which to
approach politics today. Contemporary Political Theorists in
Context is essential reading for all students of social and
political theory.
The Politics of Well-Being argues that the relationship between
well-being and ethical life has been overlooked. The more specific
argument of the book is that ethical life requires political
engagement, and the emergence of a society committed to critical
thinking. It is argued that these conditions allow for our
ordination and confirmation as ethical subjects. While well-being
can be experienced in different ways, it is claimed that, after
experience of ethical life, a more sustainable form of it is
revealed to us, a form which we would be drawn to preserve, a form
which can be constituted as an object of hope. While the book draws
on philosophical themes, its main focus is political. This is
because its primary objective is to identify and to examine what
needs to be done in order to realise ethical life. Its main focus
in this respect is the identification and examination of the
barriers which need to be overcome if ethical life is to be
realised. It is acknowledged that this will not be an easy task.
Indeed, it may be an impossible task. However, despite these
barriers, and despite the dark days we are living through, the book
is a call to hope rather than a surrender to despair. This book
will be of interest to students of politics, psychology, cultural
studies, philosophy, and sociology, as well as anyone else
interested in exploring new ideas about how the make the world a
better place.
The Politics of Empathy argues that empathy is a necessary
condition for ethical subjectivity and the emergence of a more
compassionate world. One of the reasons empathy is important is
because it gives us a sense of what it is like to be someone else.
However, to understand its ethical significance we need to look
elsewhere. This book claims that empathy is ethically significant
because, uniquely, it allows us to reflect critically on the nature
of our own lives and sense of identity. More specifically, it
allows us to reflect critically on the contingency, finitude and
violence that define existence. It is argued that, without this
critical reflection, a more ethical and democratic world cannot
come into being. Our challenge today therefore is to establish the
social and political conditions in which empathy can flourish. This
will be a difficult task because powerful political and cultural
forces are reinforcing the divisions between us rather than
encouraging us to come together in a cosmopolitan community of
mutual recognition and solidarity. However, despite these limits,
there is hope for a brighter future. The book argues that this can
only come about if the Left accepts its responsibility to
articulate the contours of a new politics of internationalism and
establish the foundations of a sustainable ethical community in
which strangers will be accepted unconditionally. This work will be
of interest to students and scholars of political theory,
multiculturalism and international relations.
The main argument of this book is that empathy is a necessary
condition for a just, democratic and ethical politics. Empathy
remains significant in a variety of fields but it remains largely
unexamined within political theory. At a time of increasing
cultural and political polarisation it is vital that we see this
capacity of the imagination' as central to the task of
understanding difference and establishing meaningful dialogue
between communities. It is argued that the need to protect and
promote a disposition of openness' to the other is not well served
by existing accounts. Thus, while acknowledging the integrity of
alternative voices and our ethical responsibility to recognise them
in a culture of equality, existing accounts tend to remain
philosophically abstract and, as a result, fail to identify the
concrete political conditions requisite for the realisation of a
culture of recognition. Thus, deconstuctionist accounts, for
example, those of Derrida, Tully, Cavell, Rorty, Benhabib and
Critchley, while valuable and insightful in many respects, are
articulated in a social and political vacuum that undermines their
capacity to be politically effective. Moreover, they fail to
recognise the significance of empathy as a transformative and
politically salient life experience. As a result, they fail to
consider politics as an activity that should be far more attuned to
the task of nurturing the conditions that make empathic relations
possible. In short, the argument in this book is that, because they
do not consider empathy, contemporary theoretical approaches to the
politics of recognition lack political traction.
This exciting new textbook presents a clear framework for students
to understand how themes and issues in political thought have
emerged and developed throughout the 20th Century. Charting the
progression from the preoccupation with the boundaries of the
modern state, through to the current debates on rights, identity
and justice; the three sections of the book enable the ideas of
significant political thinkers to unfold through a telling of the
key political events that gave a social context for their thought:
Section I: The Inter-War Debate: Weber, Gramsci and Schmitt Section
II: Post-War Debates: Arendt, Oakeshott, De Beauvoir and Adorno
Section III: Contemporary Debates: Rawls, Nozick, Kymlicka and
Foucault Written in an accessible and concise format, features
include: 'rewind' and 'fast-forward' indicators to easily guide
students around the text discussion points, revision notes and
further reading in each chapter informative text boxes to highlight
key concepts, people and events. By exploring an often ignored
relationship in political thought, the influence of thought upon
historical change and the influence of historical change upon
theory, this text delivers new and exciting angles from which to
approach politics today. Contemporary Political Theorists in
Context is essential reading for all students of social and
political theory.
The Politics of Well-Being argues that the relationship between
well-being and ethical life has been overlooked. The more specific
argument of the book is that ethical life requires political
engagement, and the emergence of a society committed to critical
thinking. It is argued that these conditions allow for our
ordination and confirmation as ethical subjects. While well-being
can be experienced in different ways, it is claimed that, after
experience of ethical life, a more sustainable form of it is
revealed to us, a form which we would be drawn to preserve, a form
which can be constituted as an object of hope. While the book draws
on philosophical themes, its main focus is political. This is
because its primary objective is to identify and to examine what
needs to be done in order to realise ethical life. Its main focus
in this respect is the identification and examination of the
barriers which need to be overcome if ethical life is to be
realised. It is acknowledged that this will not be an easy task.
Indeed, it may be an impossible task. However, despite these
barriers, and despite the dark days we are living through, the book
is a call to hope rather than a surrender to despair. This book
will be of interest to students of politics, psychology, cultural
studies, philosophy, and sociology, as well as anyone else
interested in exploring new ideas about how the make the world a
better place.
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