Fictive Theories: Towards a Deconstructive and Utopian Political Imagination

ISBN-13: 9781349529728 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 227 str.

Susan McManus; S. McManus

Opis

"Fictive Theories" reconceives political theory as an open-ended project grounded in a future-oriented imagination, and as a space of creative possibilities.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Introduction: The Politics of Fictive Theories: Reading/Writing/Theory PART I: SPECULATIVE BEGINNINGS Hobbes: The Impossible Narrative of Nature Rousseau: Conceiving the Inconceivable Excursus: 'Mere High-Flown Fantasy...'? (Kant on Holiday) PART II: FICTIONS OF SELF-EVIDENCE Stirner, Marx, Derrida: Beyond the Material/Utopian Epiphany and/or Politics? Nietzsche PART III: FABRICATING THE FUTURE(S) Bloch's Utopian Imagination: Fictive Theories Towards a Conclusion: Creative Epistemologies of Possibility

O autorze

SUSAN MCMANUS is Lecturer in Political Theory at Queens University, Belfast, UK.