This collection of essays breaks new ground by providing an unparalleled snapshot of new work in political philosophy. The book brings together up-and-coming scholars from across the globe using such diverse methodologies as critical theory and social choice theory, historical analysis and conceptual analysis. The volume demonstrates the vibrancy of contemporary political theorizing not only when treating perennial topics—democracy, equality, legitimacy, liberty, patriotism, political freedom, rationality—but also when revivifying topics briefly out of favor—human needs, ideology, judgment, political aesthetics—and tackling topics more recently put on the agenda—citizenship, collective agency, cultural contexts, feminism, identity, multiculturalism, social suffering, subjectivity.
'In this volume, a young generation of political theorists and philosophers successfully overcome the established paradigms of political philosophy. In leaving behind problems related to a heavily normative approach to politics, they return to classical problems in our political self-understanding, such as the conceptualization of ideology, engagement with questions of social suffering and human needs, and attention to the subject of politics.' - Axel Honneth, University of Frankfurt, Germany.
Forward
Introduction
Notes On Contributors
Feminism and the Subject of Politics; A.Allen
Liberty and its Circumstances: A Functional Approach; L.Halldenius
Human Needs and Political Judgment; L.Hamilton
Rethinking Ideology; R.Jaeggi
Making Nonsense of Loyalty to Country; S.Keller
Finding Theoretical Concepts in the Real World: The Case of the Precariat; M.LaVaque-Manty
Reflexive Democracy as Popular Sovereignty; K.Olson
Democratic Legitimacy without Collective Rationality; F.Peter
The Political Philosophy of Social Suffering; E.Renault
The Subject of Multiculturalism: Culture, Religion, Language, Ethnicity, Nationality, and Race?; S.Song
The Aesthetic of Freedom; A.H.Wingo
Index
BOUDEWIJN DE BRUIN is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. His research interests include freedom, recognition, collective entities, game theory, logic, epistemology and Wittgenstein. His work has appeared in such journals as Politics, Philosophy & Economics, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, and Synthese.
CHRISTOPHER F. ZURN is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky, USA. His research interests include theories of democracy, constitutionalism, institutional design, critical social theory, recognition, and social movements. He is the author of Deliberative Democracy and the Institutions of Judicial Review (2007).
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This collection of essays breaks new ground by providing an unparalleled snapshot of new work in political philosophy. The book brings together up-and-coming scholars from across the globe using such diverse methodologies as critical theory and social choice theory, historical analysis and conceptual analysis. The volume demonstrates the vibrancy of contemporary political theorizing not only when treating perennial topics—democracy, equality, legitimacy, liberty, patriotism, political freedom, rationality—but also when revivifying topics briefly out of favor—human needs, ideology, judgment, political aesthetics—and tackling topics more recently put on the agenda—citizenship, collective agency, cultural contexts, feminism, identity, multiculturalism, social suffering, subjectivity.
Reviews
'In this volume, a young generation of political theorists and philosophers successfully overcome the established paradigms of political philosophy. In leaving behind problems related to a heavily normative approach to politics, they return to classical problems in our political self-understanding, such as the conceptualization of ideology, engagement with questions of social suffering and human needs, and attention to the subject of politics.' - Axel Honneth, University of Frankfurt, Germany.
Contents
Forward
Introduction
Notes On Contributors
Feminism and the Subject of Politics; A.Allen
Liberty and its Circumstances: A Functional Approach; L.Halldenius
Human Needs and Political Judgment; L.Hamilton
Rethinking Ideology; R.Jaeggi
Making Nonsense of Loyalty to Country; S.Keller
Finding Theoretical Concepts in the Real World: The Case of the Precariat; M.LaVaque-Manty
Reflexive Democracy as Popular Sovereignty; K.Olson
Democratic Legitimacy without Collective Rationality; F.Peter
The Political Philosophy of Social Suffering; E.Renault
The Subject of Multiculturalism: Culture, Religion, Language, Ethnicity, Nationality, and Race?; S.Song
The Aesthetic of Freedom; A.H.Wingo
Index
Authors
BOUDEWIJN DE BRUIN is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. His research interests include freedom, recognition, collective entities, game theory, logic, epistemology and Wittgenstein. His work has appeared in such journals as Politics, Philosophy & Economics, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, and Synthese.
CHRISTOPHER F. ZURN is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky, USA. His research interests include theories of democracy, constitutionalism, institutional design, critical social theory, recognition, and social movements. He is the author of Deliberative Democracy and the Institutions of Judicial Review (2007).
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