Fictive Theories : Towards a Deconstructive and Utopian Political Imagination / / by S. McManus

• Autore: McManus Susan
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2005
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2005.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (VII, 227 p.)
• Disciplina: 321/.07
• Soggetto topico: Political science; Political science - Philosophy; Social sciences - Philosophy; Knowledge, Theory of; World politics; Political Theory; Political Philosophy; Social Philosophy; Epistemology; Political Science; Political History
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-219) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Politics of Fictive Theories: Reading/Writing/Theory -- Part I Speculative Beginnings -- Chapter One: Hobbes: Restraining Fictions -- Chapter Two: Rousseau: Conceiving the Inconceivable -- Excursus "Mere High-Flown Fantasy . . .?" (Kant on Holiday) -- Part II Fictions of Self-Evidence -- Chapter Three: Stirner (with Marx and Derrida): Neither Material nor Utopian? -- Chapter Four: Epiphany and / or Politics? Nietzsche -- I. Reading/Writing Nietzsche -- II. Nihilism--and Beyond? Errors for Life -- III. Nietzsche's Ressentiment? Or, What is Written on Zarathustra's Tablets? -- Part III Fabricating the Future -- Chapter Five: Bloch's Utopian Imagination: Fictive Theories -- Toward a Conclusion: Fictive Theories and Creative Epistemologies of Possibility -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
• Sommario/riassunto: Fictive 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Fictive Theories
• ISBN: 9786611367695; 9781281367693; 1281367699; 9781403966681; 1403966680
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910975430303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in European Culture and History, . 2945-6282