Politics And Post Structuralism

Author : Alan Finlayson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474468217
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics and Post-Structuralism written by Alan Finlayson and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-structuralism is recognised as a major force within literary and cultural studies. This book is the first to apply the theory to politics and to show the ways in which it can illuminate political theory and analysis. As such it is likely to become a key text in the development of this area, providing a stimulating introduction to the subject. Authors explore the two-way relationship, showing not only that post-structuralism can enhance the study of politics, but also that advocates of post-structuralism can benefit from being open to the lessons political studies can teach. The book aims to* Clarify the relationship of contemporary theory to politics* Open up a new intellectual interface* Create a space for exchange between disciplines* Provide a statement of the role of post-structuralist theory in politicsCovering three main sections - What is Post-structuralist Political Theory?; Post-structuralism and Political Analysis; and The Question of the Political - the authors draw on themes raised by Continental thinkers such as Derrida, Nancy and Deleuze, and Anglo-American thinkers such as Butler and Connolly in their questioning of the theoretical and empirical understanding of contemporary politics.Key Features:* First systematic examination of post-structuralism to see what it may mean for political studies* Advances its own rigorous and theoretically informed position* Cutting edge: provides a vibrant introduction to this area of political thought and analysis* Brings clarity to the two-way relationship between post-structuralism and politics

Author : Saul Newman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134219423
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power and Politics in Poststructuralist Thought written by Saul Newman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-04-11 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an important reading of the political implications of postmodernity, focussing on the nature of power, ideology and subjectivity The volume critically discusses the work of key postructuralist thinkers: Foucault, Derrida, Lacan, Deleuze and the often overlooked Max Stirner

Author : Jenny Edkins
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781555878450
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poststructuralism & International Relations written by Jenny Edkins and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering an introduction to the major poststructuralist thinkers, this text shows how Foucault, Derrida, Lacan and Zizek expose the depoliticization found in conventional international relations theory. poststructuralists are concerned with the big questions of international politics: it is precisely their work that analyzes the political and explains the processes of depoliticization and technologization.

Author : Todd May
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271039078
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism written by Todd May and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1994-07-22 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The political writings of the French poststructuralists have eluded articulation in the broader framework of general political philosophy primarily because of the pervasive tendency to define politics along a single parameter: the balance between state power and individual rights in liberalism and the focus on economic justice as a goal in Marxism. What poststructuralists like Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Jean-François Lyotard offer instead is a political philosophy that can be called tactical: it emphasizes that power emerges from many different sources and operates along many different registers. This approach has roots in traditional anarchist thought, which sees the social and political field as a network of intertwined practices with overlapping political effects. The poststructuralist approach, however, eschews two questionable assumptions of anarchism, that human beings have an (essentially benign) essence and that power is always repressive, never productive. After positioning poststructuralist political thought against the background of Marxism and the traditional anarchism of Bakunin, Kropotkin, and Proudhon, Todd May shows what a tactical political philosophy like anarchism looks like shorn of its humanist commitments—namely, a poststructuralist anarchism. The book concludes with a defense, contra Habermas and Critical Theory, of poststructuralist political thought as having a metaethical structure allowing for positive ethical commitments.

Author : D. Howarth
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137266988
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poststructuralism and After written by D. Howarth and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-04 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book articulates the key theoretical assumptions of poststructuralism, but also probes its limits, evaluates rival approaches and elaborates new concepts. Building on the work of Derrida, Foucault, Heidegger, Lacan, Laclau, Lévi–Strauss, Marx, Saussure and Žižek, the book also provides a distinctive version of the poststructuralist project.

Author : Todd May
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271039744
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Moral Theory of Poststructuralism written by Todd May and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : D. Howarth
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137266988
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poststructuralism and After written by D. Howarth and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-04 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book articulates the key theoretical assumptions of poststructuralism, but also probes its limits, evaluates rival approaches and elaborates new concepts. Building on the work of Derrida, Foucault, Heidegger, Lacan, Laclau, Lévi–Strauss, Marx, Saussure and Žižek, the book also provides a distinctive version of the poststructuralist project.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004470506
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Approaches to International Relations written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Approaches to International Relations: Philosophical Foundations and Current Debates covers the most influential approaches within critical IR scholarship with a particular focus on historical heritage and philosophical roots they built upon and current directions of research they propose.

Author : Madan Sarup
Publisher : Pearson Education
ISBN 13 : 9780745013602
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introductory Guide to Post-structuralism and Postmodernism written by Madan Sarup and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 1993 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madan Sarup has now revised his accessible and popular introduction to post-structuralist and postmodern theory. A new introductory section discusses the meaning of such concepts as modernity, postmodernity, modernization, modernism, and postmodernism. A section on feminist criticism of Lacan and Foucault has been added, together with a new chapter on French feminist theory focusing on the work of Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray, and Julia Kristeva. The chapter on postmodernism has been significantly expanded to include a discussion of Lyotard's language games and his use of the category "sublime." This chapter ends with a discussion of the relationship between feminism and postmodernism. A further chapter has been added on the work of Jean Baudrillard, a cult figure on the current postmodernist scene, whose ideas have attained a wide currency. The chapter includes a new section on postmodern cultural practices as revealed in architecture, TV, video, and film. Suggestions for further reading are now listed at the end of each chapter and are upgraded and annotated. In tracing the impact of post-structuralist thought not only on literary criticism but on such disciplines as philosophy, politics, psychoanalysis, the social sciences, and art, this book will be essential reading for those who want a clear and incisive introduction to the theories that continue to have widespread influence. -- Back cover.

Author : Andrew M. Koch
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739114094
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poststructuralism and the Politics of Method written by Andrew M. Koch and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the time of Plato, political philosophy has attempted to create a secure basis upon which to build the prescriptive claims for political action. However, if knowledge is a human construction, not the discovery of some essential reality, is it possible to support collective acts by reference to such foundational claims? If not, we must rethink our understanding society, politics, and the exercise of power. Beginning with the premise that our knowledge of political and social life is historical and contingent, Andrew Koch seeks to re-conceptualize our understanding of politics and power. Koch moves the discussions of power and politics away from search for foundational truths. Viewing politics and power through an epistemological lens, he explores what our understanding of politics and power looks like in the wake of deconstruction and genealogy. Koch begins with a general overview of the poststructuralist epistemology. From there the work contrasts this position with the interpretive sociology of Max Weber, uses deconstruction to politicize the work of Niklas Luhmann, and explores the implications of deconstruction for democracy, Marxist theory, institutional power, and anarchist politics.