Rethinking Political Judgement

Arendt and Existentialism

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

How can we reinvigorate the human capacity for political judgement as a practical activity capable of addressing the uncertainties of our postfoundational world? The book takes up this challenge by drawing on the historically attuned perspective of 20th-century philosophies of existence – in particular the work of Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus and Hannah Arendt. Displacing the lingering rationalist temptations, Maša Mrovlje engages these thinkers’ aesthetic sensibility to delve into the experiential reality of political judgement and revivify it as a worldly, ambiguous practice. The purpose is to illustrate the prescient political significance of existentialists’ narrative imagination on two contemporary perplexities of political judgement: the problem of dirty hands and the challenge of transitional justice. This engagement reveals the distinctly resistant potential of worldly judgement in its ability to stimulate our capacities of coming to terms with and creatively confronting the tragedies of political action, rather than simply yielding to them as a necessary course of political life.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-12-04
Mått:156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt:552 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474429993

Utforska kategorier

Statsvetenskap och politisk teori inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Maša Mrovlje is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Edinburgh, working on the ERC-funded project 'Illuminating the Grey Zone'. Her research interests are oriented by the rubric of international political theory and the history of political thought, with a specific focus on 20th-century philosophies of existence, poststructuralist and critical theories, and their significance to issues of political judgement, responsibility, violence, resistance and transitional justice.

Recensioner i media

This book is a timely work that brings Arendt into conversation with Beauvoir, Camus, and Sartre, making a significant and valuable contribution to political theory and philosophy. It is an ambitious and extremely fruitful project concerning the need to reconsider political judgment by taking into account its ambiguous and tragic character.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Political Judgement in the History of Political Thought and the Modern Crises; 2. Sartre and Beauvoir: the Ambiguity of Political Judgement and the Challenge of Freedom and Responsibility; 3. Camus and Arendt: Confronting the Ambiguity of Political Judgement and Illuminating the Limits of the World; 4. Political Judgement and Narrativity; 5. Facing Up To the Tragedy of Political Action: the Problem of Dirty Hands; 6. Times of Transition: Reconciling With the Tragic Nature of Political Affairs; Conclusion: Reclaiming Wonder at the World of Political Affairs; Bibliography.