Right-Wing Mirror of Critical Theory (eBook)

Studies of Schmitt, Oakeshott, Hayek, Strauss, and Rand

Larry Alan Busk (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
276 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-6669-2964-5 (ISBN)

Infos

What really separates emancipatory thinking from its opposite? The prevailing Left defines itself against neoliberalism, conservative traditionalism, and fascism as a matter of course. The philosophical differences, however, may be more apparent than real. The Right-Wing Mirror of Critical Theory argues that dominant trends in critical and radical theory inadvertently reproduce the cardinal tenets of the twentieth century's most influential right-wing philosophers. It finds the rejection of foundationalism, rationalism, economic planning, and vanguardism mirrored in the work of Schmitt, Oakeshott, Hayek, and Strauss. If it is to be more than merely an inverted image of the Right, critical theory must reevaluate its relationship to what Julius Nyerere once called ';deliberate design' in politics. In the era of anthropogenic climate change, a substantialnot merely nominaldeparture from right-wing talking points is all the more necessary and momentous.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.9.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: climate change • Conservativism • Continental Philosophy • dialectical critique • Fascism • Neoliberalism • Ontology • Political Philosophy • Rationalism • Vanguardism
• ISBN-10: 1-6669-2964-6 / 1666929646
• ISBN-13: 978-1-6669-2964-5 / 9781666929645