LEADER 03104nam 2200553Ia 450 001 9910449912003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-36769-9 010 $a1-4039-6668-0 010 $a9786611367695 024 7 $a10.1057/9781403976802 035 $a(CKB)1000000000245815 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC307787 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-4039-7680-2 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL307787 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10118439 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL136769 035 $a(OCoLC)560030309 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000245815 100 $a20041001d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFictive theories$b[electronic resource] $etowards a deconstructive and utopian political imagination /$fSusan McManus 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cPalgrave Macmillan$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (VII, 227 p.) 225 1 $aStudies in European culture and history 311 $a1-4039-7680-5 311 $a1-349-52972-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [171]-219) and index. 330 $aFictive Theories is a significant and innovative intervention in key debates in political theory concerning the ways theory should be philosophically grounded, and the task that political theory should set itself. Susan McManus argues that political theory has been grounded in controlling fictions (from fictions of human nature, to morals laws) that function to close possibility. Starting by interrogating the often hidden work of fictions in political theories, she argues that all theorizing is a form of world-creating. Rather than hiding the fictions at work in political theory, McManus argues that theory should become self-consciously fictive, and that there are political and ethical advantages to so doing. She then develops a uniquely deconstructive and utopian understanding of the project of political theory grounded in the 'fictive': a creative and future-oriented imagination. Rather than seeking to provide blueprints of how a polity should be organized, fictive theories seek to fabricate futures through the anticipatory articulation of possibility. Drawing on a rich range of thinkers from the traditions of political theory (Hobbes, Rousseau, Kant), deconstructive theory (Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida) and utopian studies (Ernst Bloch), this book will be of interest to researchers, teachers and students in the fields of political theory, utopian studies, literary theory and cultural studies. 410 0$aStudies in European culture and history. 606 $aPolitical science$xPhilosophy 606 $aSocial epistemology 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPolitical science$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aSocial epistemology. 676 $a321/.07 700 $aMcManus$b Susan$0992540 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910449912003321 996 $aFictive theories$92272714 997 $aUNINA