Law and Agonistic Politics (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Schaap, Andrew

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Ancient Greek notion of agonism, meaning struggle, has been revived in radical legal and political theory to rethematize class conflict and to conceptualize the conditions of possibility of freedom and social transformation in contemporary society. Insisting that what is ultimately at stake in politics are the terms in which social conflict is represented, agonists highlight the importance of the strategic, affective and aesthetic aspects of politics for democratic praxis. This volume examines the implications of this critical perspective for understanding law and considers how law serves either to sustain or curtail the democratic agon. While sharing a critical perspective on the deliberative turn in legal and political theory and its tendency to depoliticize social conflict, the various contributors to this volume diverge in arguing variously for pragmatic, expressivist or strategic conceptions of agonism. In doing so they question the glib assumptions that often underlie a sometimes too easy celebration of conflict as an antidote to de-politicizing consensus. This thought provoking volume will be of interest to students and researchers working in legal and political theory and philosophy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317107927
• Artikelnr.: 49352342

Autorenporträt

Andrew Schaap is lecturer in politics at the University of Exeter, UK where he teaches international relations and political theory. His research interests include the the work of Hannah Arendt, transitional justice, the concept of the political and democratic theory. He is currently working on a monograph on the politics of human rights.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors
Preface
Introduction
1 The Democratic Narcissus: The Agonism of the Ancients Compared to that of the (Post)Moderns
2 Democratic Agon: Striving for Distinction or Struggle against Domination and Injustice?
3 The Opening: Alegality and Political Agonism
4 The Expressive Agon: On Political Agency in a Constitutional Democratic Polity
5 Staging Dissensus: Frederick Douglass and 'We
the People'
6 Polemos and Agon
7 Questioning the Law? On Heteronomy in Public Autonomy
8 Agonism
Antagonism and the Necessity of Care
9 The Stranger in Synagonistic Politics
10 Passionate Subjectivity
Contestation and Acknowledgement: Rereading Austin and Cavell
11 On the Rationality of Disagreement and Feeling: Brethren
Bombers and the Construction of the Common
12 The Complex Agon
13 The Absurd Proposition of Aboriginal Sovereignty
Index