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Item Details
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THE POLITICS OF POSTMODERNITY
ESSAYS IN APPLIED HERMENEUTICS |
| By: |
Gary Brent Madison |
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Paperback |
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£89.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
940103818X |
| ISBN 13: |
9789401038188 |
| Publisher: |
SPRINGER |
| Pub. date: |
14 September, 2012 |
| Edition: |
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001 |
| Series: |
Contributions to Phenomenology 42 |
| Pages: |
277 |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
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biography |
| Publication: |
Netherlands |
| Imprint: |
Springer |
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