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Description: Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics by Bonnie Honig In this book, Bonnie Honig rethinks that established relation between politics and political theory. From liberal to communitarian to republican, political theorists of opposing positions often treat political theory less as an exploration of politics... FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In this book, Bonnie Honig rethinks that established relation between politics and political theory. From liberal to communitarian to republican, political theorists of opposing positions often treat political theory less as an exploration of politics than as a series of devices of its displacement. Honig characterizes Kant, Rawls, and Sandel as virtue theorists of politics, arguing that they rely on principles of right, rationality, community, and law to protect their political theories from the conflict and uncertainty of political reality. Drawing on Nietzsche and Arendt, as well as Machiavelli and Derrida, Honig explores an alternative politics of virtu, which treats the disruptions of political order as valued sites of democratic freedom and individuality. Author Biography Bonnie Honig is Nancy Duke Lewis Professor in the departments of Modern Culture and Media (MCM) and Political Science at Brown University. She is the author of Antigone, Interrupted; Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy; and Democracy and the Foreigner. Table of Contents 1. Negotiating Positions: The Politics of Virtue and Virtu2. Kant and the Concept of Respect for PersonsBeginningsRespect for the Moral LawReverence-Respect for PersonsTeleological Respect for PersonsLiberal Respect for PersonsSetting the Conditions for Moral ImprovementKants Virtue Theory of Politics3. Nietzsche and the Recovery of ResponsibilityThree Kinds of RecoveryThe Genealogical Recovery of ResponsibilityThe Re-covery of Responsibility: Against RemorseThe Re-covery of Responsibility: Eternal RecurrenceAlternative Responsibilities: The Self as a Work of ArtNietzsches Re-covery of Virtue as VirtuNietzsches Reverence for Institutions4. Arendts Accounts of Action and AuthorityAction, Identity, and the SelfActing through Speech: Promising and ForgivenessThe Postulates of ActionStabilizing Performatives: Arendt, Austin, and DerridaActing through Writing: Founding the New American RepublicThe Undecidability of the American Declaration of IndependenceIntervention, Augmentation, and Resistability: Arendts Practice of Political AuthorityMaking Space for Arendts Virtu Theory of Politics5. Rawls and the Remainders of PoliticsReconciliation or Politicization?The Politics of Originating PositionsThe Practice of PunishmentIrresponsible Rogues and Idiosyncratic MisfitsLiberal and Other Alternatives6. Sandel and the Proliferation of Political SubjectsTwo Kinds of DispossessionThe Communitarian Subject of PossessionOccasions for PoliticsPolitics as FriendshipMorally Deep QuestionsMorally Deep AnswersThe Rawlsian Supplement7. Renegotiating Positions: Beyond the Virtue-Virtu Opposition Review "Bonnie Honig concludes the introduction to this fine book by invokingthe virago: the female warrior who will not be contained within categoriesthat oppose masculinity against femininity or human rationality against theforces of nature. It is a fitting emblem for a book that takes up and perturbs an opposition that functions variously to divide reason from violence, liberal humanism from poststructuralist skepticism, and feminine passivity from masculine bravado. This is the opposition between virtu and virtue, and Honig calibrates it against a new measure she terms the displacement of politics."-Lisa Disch, Political Theory "Honigs sharp genealogical sensibilities and insights, her development of a position of agonistic amendable authority, the questions which she raises and the soothing answers she refuses, come together in an excellent book that engages and provokes its readers in ways which exemplify political theory at its best, animated but not displaced by politics."-Romand Coles, Journal of Politics "Thinkers as diverse as Plato, Aquinas, Hobbes, Locke, and Marx have relied,explicitly or implicitly, on the belief that there is some set of political and social arrangements most conducive to themaximization of human well-being and happiness. Bonnie Honigs illuminating and disquieting book provides an acute and much-needed analysis of some of the consequences and implications of this teleological assumption for contemporary political theory and, more generally, for the ways in which people tend to conceive of politics. Indeed, Honig argues that politics itself, at least insofar as it entails or expresses ultimately irreducible conflict, dissonance, resistance, and agonal struggle, has largely been displaced from or written out of political theory."-Lawrence J. Biskowski, American Quarterly Long Description In this book, Bonnie Honig rethinks that established relation between politics and political theory. From liberal to communitarian to republican, political theorists of opposing positions often treat political theory less as an exploration of politics than as a series of devices of its displacement. Honig characterizes Kant, Rawls, and Sandel as virtue theorists of politics, arguing that they rely on principles of right, rationality, community, and law to protect their political theories from the conflict and uncertainty of political reality. Drawing on Nietzsche and Arendt, as well as Machiavelli and Derrida, Honig explores an alternative politics of virt Review Quote "Thinkers as diverse as Plato, Aquinas, Hobbes, Locke, and Marx have relied,explicitly or implicitly, on the belief that there is some set of political and social arrangements most conducive to themaximization of human well-being and happiness. Bonnie Honigs illuminating and disquieting book provides an acute and much-needed analysis of some of the consequences and implications of this teleological assumption for contemporary political theory and, more generally, for the ways in which people tend to conceive of politics. Indeed, Honig argues that politics itself, at least insofar as it entails or expresses ultimately irreducible conflict, dissonance, resistance, and agonal struggle, has largely been displaced from or written out of political theory."-Lawrence J. Biskowski, American Quarterly Details ISBN0801480728 Author Bonnie Honig Publisher Cornell University Press Language English ISBN-10 0801480728 ISBN-13 9780801480720 Media Book DEWEY 320.01 Year 1993 Imprint Cornell University Press Place of Publication Ithaca Country of Publication United States Short Title POLITICAL THEORY & THE DISPLAC Format Paperback Pages 304 Residence US Illustrations black & white illustrations DOI 10.1604/9780801480720 UK Release Date 1993-04-15 AU Release Date 1993-04-15 NZ Release Date 1993-04-15 US Release Date 1993-04-15 Series Contestations Publication Date 1993-04-15 Alternative 9780801427954 Audience Undergraduate We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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