Cynical suspicions and Platonist pretentions : a critique of contemporary political theory / by John McGuire.

In Cynical Suspicions and Platonist Pretensions , John McGuire offers a critique of recent trends in contemporary political theory, specifically concerning the 'dangers' of cynicism and the contamination of public reason. In the view of many theorists and pundits, cynicism remains one of t...

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Main Author: McGuire, John (Research Fellow) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Series:Social and critical theory ; v. 22.
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505 0 |a Causarum Cognitio -- Naked in the marketplace -- The courage and scourge of truth -- Excursus : Sloterdijk on a motorbike! (or, Zen and the art of neo-Kynicism) -- The resistible rise of Rawlsian reasonableness -- Thomas Pogge : ethics and the ire of the beholden -- Nancy Fraser's Subaltern Weltburger blues -- Excursus : the poverty of Agonism -- Jurgen Habermas' postmetaphysical paralysis? -- Defacing the political currency : cynicism as a normative perspective for critical theory. 
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