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Democracy, Critique and the Ontological Turn by Mihaela Mihai; Lois McNay; Oliver Marchart; Aletta Norval; Vassilios Paipais; Sergei Prozorov; Mathias Thaler is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Democracy, Critique and the Ontological Turn about?
Hardt and Negri (2001, p. 354) once remarked that 'political philosophy forces us to enter the terrain of ontology'. At a time when democracy's very future seems to be at stake, this statement assumes a renewed urgency. For, if the democratic project is once more under existential threat, rethinking the foundations of political thought and action is perhaps no longer the exclusive preoccupation of radical political thinkers but becomes the central task of contemporary democratic theory more broadly. Political ontologists have persuasively argued that our fundamental assumptions about the meaning and nature of our being in the world, about politics as a collective activity, and about the purpose of political philosophy are deeply interwoven; thinking and acting politically, as Hannah Arendt taught us, are inseparable. Philosophy is not simply an external discourse of knowledge that produces a scientific or 'objective' account of political life, separate from the actual practices, habits and affective commitments of individual or collective agents; nor can political life simply be reduced to procedures of validation based on intersubjective rules of communication. Yet, even if the so
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- Author
- Mihaela Mihai; Lois McNay; Oliver Marchart; Aletta Norval; Vassilios Paipais; Sergei Prozorov; Mathias Thaler
- Publisher
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences