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Studies in European Culture and History Ser.: Fictive Theories : Towards a Deconstructive and Utopian Political Imagination by Susan McManus (2005, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN-101403966680
ISBN-139781403966681
eBay Product ID (ePID)30791667
Product Key Features
Number of PagesVII, 227 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameFictive Theories : Towards a Deconstructive and Utopian Political Imagination
SubjectSocial, History & Theory, Political
Publication Year2005
TypeTextbook
AuthorSusan Mcmanus
Subject AreaPhilosophy, Political Science
SeriesStudies in European Culture and History Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight18.3 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2004-043198
Dewey Edition22
Number of Volumes1 vol.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal321.07
Table Of ContentAcknowledgements 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
SynopsisFictive Theories reconceives political theory as an open-ended project grounded in a future-oriented imagination, and as a space of creative possibilities., 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.
LC Classification NumberJC11-607
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