Articulations of Nature and Politics in Plato and Hegel

ISBN-13: 9783030521264 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 190 str.

Vicky Roupa

Spis treści

1. Articulations: Of Nature and Politics

Part I: Redefining the Natural: Language and Logic

2. Naming as Technē in Plato’s Cratylus

3. Producing the Categories of Being: The Sophist

4. Producing the Categories of Being: The Science of Logic

Part II: Redefining the Natural: Society and Politics

5. The Question of Nature in the Republic

6. Between Two Paradigms of Politics

7. Embodying the Political

8. Conclusion: Towards Finitude and the Fragility of Sense

O autorze

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

Blurb

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 nature’s 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