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Political ontology and international political thought : voiding a pluralist world / Vassilois Paipais.

Paipais, Vassilios, author.
2017
JA71 .P35 2017
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Title
Political ontology and international political thought : voiding a pluralist world / Vassilois Paipais.
Author
Paipais, Vassilios, author.
ISBN
9781137570697 (electronic book)
1137570695 (electronic book)
9781137570680
1137570687
Published
London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : color illustrations.
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JA71 .P35 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
320.01
Summary
This book challenges received notions of ontology in political theory and international relations by offering a psychoanalytically informed critique of depoliticisation in prominent liberal, post-liberal, dialogic and agonistic approaches to pluralism in world politics. Paipais locates the temptation of depoliticisation in their labouring under the fundamental fantasy of various guises of foundationalism (in the form of either political anthropology or ontology as 'in the last instance' ground) or, conversely, anti-foundationalism (the denial of all grounds, yet still operating within a foundationalist imaginary). He argues, instead, for a formal political ontology of the void (against historicism) shot through an 'incarnate' messianic nihilism (against ethicism and teleological forms of politics). In so doing, the author offers critical readings of the messianic nihilism of Benjamin, Agamben, Taubes and Žižek by problematising the antinomian tendencies in their respective political theologies. The book argues for a version of Žižek's Badiouian politics of militancy supplemented by a proper participatory understanding of St Paul's messianic meontology and incarnational Christology as a means to reconceptualise the nexus between subjectivity, universality and political action in world politics. It will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations theory, political theory, critical social theory and political theology.
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International political theory.
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Introduction: Ontology and depoliticisation in a pluralist world
PART I: A Phenomenology of Depoliticisation in Theorising a Pluralist World
Chapter 1: Depoliticisation in liberal and post-liberal ontologies
Chapter 2: Depoliticisation in critical dialogic ontologies
Chapter 3:Depoliticisation in agonistic ontologies
PART II: Political Ontology and the Future of Politics
Chapter 4: From stasis to tragedy: ontology and phenomenology of political difference
Chapter 5: Traversing the fantasy and the 'morning after': from political ontology to theopolitical meontology
Epilogue: The politics of (im)pure criticism
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Index.

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