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Fictive Theories - S. McManus

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Towards a Deconstructive and Utopian Political Imagination

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VII, 227 Seiten
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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.
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.

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

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag 3.6.2005
Reihe/Serie Studies in European Culture and History
Studies in European Culture and History
Zusatzinfo VII, 227 p.
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
Schlagworte Imagination • Immanuel Kant • Intervention • Jacques Derrida • Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Karl Marx • Knowledge • Morality • political theory • Politics • Roland Barthes • Rousseau • Thomas Hobbes • Understanding • Work
ISBN-10 1-4039-7680-5 / 1403976805
ISBN-13 978-1-4039-7680-2 / 9781403976802
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