Ethics and politics in contemporary theory
Subtitle: between critical theory and post-Marxism
By: Mark Devenney.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
Subjects: Political ethics.; Political science -- Philosophy.; Socialist ethics.; Philosophy, Marxist.
Description: "The end of the Cold War and the subsequent critique of Communism as a viable political alternative to liberal democracies has led to an often uncritical acceptance of an emerging global capitalist order. In this book, Mark Devenney seeks an alternative perspective drawn from a synthesis of critical theory and post-Marxist theory while avoiding the reactionary fundamentalism that rejects altogether the possibility of building an enlightened, secular, social order." "Analysing the work of Ernesto Laclau and Jurgen Habermas - as representatives of different choices made in regard to theory, politics and morality - Ethics and Politics in Contemporary Theory develops a critical response to the contrasting conclusions of these approaches."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The ends of Marx(ism)?; title: Language, communication, performativity; title: Performativity and politics: from Habermas to Laclau; title: Politics, idealisation and performativity; title: Quasi-transcendentalism and critical theory; title: The politics of subjectivity; title: Deliberative or radical democracy? : the politics of performativity; title: Post-structuralism and democratic theory; title: Ethics and politics in discourse theory.