| Description |
viii, 193 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. The ends of Marx(ism)? -- 2. Language, communication, performativity -- 3. Performativity and politics: from Habermas to Laclau -- 4. Politics, idealisation and performativity -- 5. Quasi-transcendentalism and critical theory -- 6. The politics of subjectivity -- 7. Deliberative or radical democracy? the politics of performativity -- 8. Post-structuralism and democratic theory -- 9. Ethics and politics in discourse theory |
| Summary |
"The end of the Cold War and the subsequent critique of Communism as a viable political alternative to liberal democracies has led to an often uncritical acceptance of an emerging global capitalist order. In this book, Mark Devenney seeks an alternative perspective drawn from a synthesis of critical theory and post-Marxist theory while avoiding the reactionary fundamentalism that rejects altogether the possibility of building an enlightened, secular, social order." "Analysing the work of Ernesto Laclau and Jurgen Habermas - as representatives of different choices made in regard to theory, politics and morality - Ethics and Politics in Contemporary Theory develops a critical response to the contrasting conclusions of these approaches."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Political ethics.
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Political science -- Philosophy.
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Socialist ethics.
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Philosophy, Marxist.
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| LC no. |
2003016011 |
| ISBN |
0415237378 hardback |
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