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Towards a Post-Modern Understanding of the Political

From Genealogy to Hermeneutics

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  1. Andrius Bielskis
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Table of contents (4 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Moving Beyond Liberalism

    • Andrius Bielskis
    Pages 1-29

  3. A Genealogical Approach to the Political

    • Andrius Bielskis
    Pages 30-94

  4. A Hermeneutic Approach to the Political

    • Andrius Bielskis
    Pages 95-162

  5. Hermeneutics Beyond Genealogy

    • Andrius Bielskis
    Pages 163-184

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 185-216
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About this book

While claiming that liberalism is the dominant political theory and practice of modernity, this book provides two alternative post-modern theoretical approaches to the political. Concentrating on Nietzsche's and Foucault's work it offers a novel interpretation of their genealogical projects. It argues that genealogy can be applied to analyze different forms of cultural kitsch vis-à-vis the dominant political institutions of consumer capitalism. The problem with consumer capitalism is not so much that it exploits individuals, but that it fosters cheap human existence saturated with the artefacts of kitsch. Contrasting genealogy with hermeneutic philosophy, it calls for a renewal of hermeneutics within the Thomistic tradition.

About the author

ANDRIUS BIELSKIS studied Politics and Philosophy in Lithuania, University of Klaipeda, before moving to Britain in 1999. Since completing postgraduate research at the University of York (MA) and the University of Warwick, he lectures in moral and political philosophy at the University of Warwick and London Metropolitan University.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Towards a Post-Modern Understanding of the Political

  • Book Subtitle: From Genealogy to Hermeneutics

  • Authors: Andrius Bielskis

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230508347

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-9599-5Published: 19 August 2005

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-54497-4Published: 01 January 2005

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-50834-7Published: 19 August 2005

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 216

  • Topics: Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Hermeneutics

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