{"product_id":"the-political-4-blackwell-readings-in-continental-philosophy-9780631215486","title":"The Political 4 Blackwell Readings in Continental","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis text is a collection of readings by the most important political philosophers representing the six major schools of continental philosophy: phenomenology, existentialism, critical theory, poststructuralism, postmodernism, and postcolonialism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A high-powered introduction to key issues in current political philosophy. With original essays, distinguished scholars respond to seminal texts by major figures in the continental tradition. Effective, informative, and timely.\" \u003cb\u003eThomas R. Flynn\u003c\/b\u003e, Emory University\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Selected by a leading specialist in political philosophy, the essays in this collection represent an ingenious way to approach recent debates in continental philosophy. The juxtaposition of essays by major political thinkers with interpretive essays that explain the context reflects thoughtful and clever matchmaking. The historical movements of phenomenology, existentialism, and critical theory are complemented by current discussions of poststructuralism, postmodernism, and postcolonialism. This anthology will be a valuable guide to the general reader who is interested in these rubrics as well as a useful text at all levels of the curriculum.\" \u003cb\u003eDavid Hoy\u003c\/b\u003e, University of California, Santa Cruz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Contributors. \u003cp\u003ePreface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction (David Ingram).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART I. PHENOMENOLOGY: POLITICAL ACTION AND THE DIALECTIC OF POWER AND VIOLENCE.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Selections from The Human Condition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn Violence (Hannah Arendt).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Power, Violence, and Legitimacy: A Reading of Hannah Arendt in an Age of Police Brutality and Humanitarian Intervention (Iris Marion Young).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART II. EXISTENTIALISM: REVOLUTIONARY PRAXIS AND THE DIALECTIC OF GROUPS AND INSTITUTIONS.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Selections from Critique of Dialectical Reason (Jean-Paul Sartre).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Sartre’s Critique (William L. McBride).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART III. CRITICAL THEORY: LIBERAL DEMOCRACY AND THE DIALECTIC OF INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNITY.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Three Normative Models of Democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn the Internal Relation Between the Rule of Law and Democracy (Jürgen Habermas).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Can Procedural Democracy Be Radical (Simone Chambers).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART IV. POSTSTRUCTURALISM: MODERN POLITICAL VIRTUE AND THE DIALECTIC OF GOVERNANCE AND RESISTANCE.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. What is Critique (Michel Foucault).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. What is Critique? An Essay on Foucault’s Virtue (Judith Butler).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART V. POSTMODERNISM: TOTALITARIANISM AND THE DIALECTIC OF IDENTITY AND DIFFERENCE.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Memorandum on Legitimation (Jean-François Lyotard).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Democracy in the Era of Identity Politics: Lyotard on Postmodern Legitimation (David Ingram).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART VI. POSTCOLONIALISM: PLANETARY POLITICS AND THE DIALECTIC OF LIFE AND LIBERATION.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Six Theses Towards a Critique of Political Reason: The Citizen as Political Agent (Enrique Dussel).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Politics in an Age of Planetarization: Enrique Dussel’s Critique of Political Reason (Eduardo Mendieta).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403427717463,"sku":"9780631215486","price":36.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780631215486.jpg?v=1730483441","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-political-4-blackwell-readings-in-continental-philosophy-9780631215486","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}