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1 online resource |
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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Articulations: Of Nature and Politics -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Nature, the Inescapable Horizon of Politics -- 3 Plato and Hegel in Pursuit of Nature -- 4 Overview -- References -- Part I: Redefining the Natural: Language and Logic -- Chapter 2: Naming as Technē in Plato's Cratylus -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Denouement of the Cratylus -- 3 Natural and Literary Paternities -- 4 The Guard at the Truth of Being -- 5 Sensibilities and Idealities -- References -- Chapter 3: Producing the Categories of Being: The Sophist |
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1 Introduction -- 2 A Model of Conceptual Analysis -- 3 Dividing Up Being -- 4 Parricidal Philosophy -- 5 Against Naturalism -- References -- Chapter 4: Producing the Categories of Being: The Science of Logic -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Naming as a Work of Art -- 3 Language and Thought in the Logic -- 3.1 The Interface Between 'Being' and 'Nothing' -- 3.2 The Word Is the Thought -- 4 From Word to Proposition -- 5 A Technical Language for Philosophy? -- 6 Conclusion to Part I -- References -- Part II: Redefining the Natural: Society and Politics -- Chapter 5: The Question of Nature in the Republic |
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1 Introduction -- 2 Kairos: The Time of the Thing -- 3 (In)harmonious Nature -- 4 The Dialectics of the Natural and the Political -- 5 Socratic vs. Thrasymachean Politics -- 6 Politics as Therapeia -- References -- Chapter 6: Between Two Paradigms of Politics -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Fichte and the Separation Between Right and Morality -- 3 The State-Machine -- 4 Sittlichkeit in Hegel's 'Natural Law' Essay -- 4.1 The Threat of Positivism -- 4.2 Absolute vs. Relative Sittlichkeit -- References -- Chapter 7: Embodying the Political -- 1 Introduction |
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2 Constructions of Nature in Hegel's Later Political Thought -- 3 Articulations of Sovereignty in the Philosophy of Right -- 4 The Monarch as a Pure Sign -- 5 The Metaphysics of the Modern State -- References -- Chapter 8: Conclusion: Towards Finitude and the Fragility of Sense -- 1 Language, Logos, and Forgetting -- 2 Are We Done with Nature? -- 3 Nature, the Speculative -- 4 The Sense of an Ending -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
This book examines nature as a foundational concept for political and constitutional theory, drawing on readings from Plato and Hegel to counter the view that optimal political arrangements are determined by nature. Focussing on the dialectical implications of the word 'nature, i.e. how it encompasses a range of meanings stretching up to the opposites of sensuousness and ideality, the book explores the various junctures at which nature and politics interlock in the philosophies of Plato and Hegel. Appearance and essence, inner life and public realm, the psychical and the political are all shown to be parts of a conflictual structure that requires both infinite proximity and irreducible distance. The book offers innovative interpretations of a number of key texts by Plato and Hegel to highlight the metaphysical and political implications of natures dialectical structure, and re-appraises their thinking of nature in a way that both respects and goes beyond their intentions. Vicky Roupa is Associate Lecturer for The Open University in London and the South East, UK, and Honorary Associate at the Department of Philosophy, The Open University |
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Includes index |
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Plato.
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Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.
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Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831 fast |
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Plato fast |
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Political science -- Philosophy.
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Philosophy of nature.
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Philosophy of nature
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Political science -- Philosophy
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783030521271 |
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3030521273 |
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