The Politics of Postmodernity

Essays in Applied Hermeneutics

Gary Brent Madison (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

277 Seiten

2012 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001
Springer (Verlag)
978-94-010-3818-8 (ISBN)

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The distinctive feature of Madison's political theory is the Merleau-Pontyan sense of contingency that pervades his writings on the subject and, indeed, is visible throughout his entire oeuvre. The perspicacity of Madison's view of con- tingency was first noted by Paul Ricoeur. In his foreword to the English transla- tion of Madison's now classic study of the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Ricoeur wrote: "More than anything, the most penetrating view which Gary Madison proposes of Merleau-Ponty's final ontology concerns the paradox of contingency. "! Twenty-eight years after the original French publication of his dissertation, we may look back over Madison's work and interpret it as working out Merleau-Ponty's insights into the implications of contingency for human political reality within the framework of a hermeneutical theory of democracy. The spirit of Merleau-Ponty's understanding of the emergence of Being at the heart of contingency and of contingency at the heart of Being is carried forward in Madison's articulation of a nondogmatic politics of communicative rational- ity.
Madison's postmodern liberalism is unique in seeking to articulate a specifi- cally and explicitly hermeneutical politics, one that attempts to draw out the ul- timate praxial consequences of phenomenological hermeneutics. As might be expected from a political-economic theory of communicative rationality, Madi- son's thinking takes shape through a dialectical confrontation with a number of prominent contemporary writers-Derrida, Rorty, and Habermas, in particular.

Preface.- by Ingrid Harris.- Notes.- POSTMODERNITY AND BEYOND.- Notes.- One: Philosophical Reason.- 1 COPING WITH NIETZSCHE'S LEGACY RORTY, DERRIDA, GADAMER.- 2 HERMENEUTICS, THE LIFEWORLD, AND THE UNIVERSALITY OF REASON (THE CASE OF CHINA).- 3 PHILOSOPHY WITHOUT FOUNDATIONS.- 4 THE NEW PHILOSOPHY OF RHETORIC.- 5 THE PRACTICE OF THEORY/THE THEORY OF PRACTICE.- Two: Social Reason.- 6 THE POLITICS OF POSTMODERNITY.- 7 HERMENEUTICAL LIBERALISM.- 8 AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS AND PHILOSOPHICAL HERMENEUTICS FROM HAYEK TO GADAMER.- 9 REINTERPRETING CIVIL SOCIETY.- PROLEGOMENA TO A HERMENEUTICAL ECOLOGY.- Notes.- Acknowledgments.- Name index.

Reihe/Serie	Contributions To Phenomenology ; 42
Zusatzinfo	XV, 277 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 240 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	94-010-3818-X / 940103818X
ISBN-13	978-94-010-3818-8 / 9789401038188
Zustand	Neuware