Political Theory for Mortals : : Shades of Justice, Images of Death / / John E. Seery.
Despite an abundance of violence occurring in political contexts, no liberal political theorist since Thomas Hobbes has talked directly and coherently about death. John E. Seery does. He contends that liberalism desperately needs a theoretical framework in which to discuss pressing matters of human...
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Seery, John E., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Political Theory for Mortals : Shades of Justice, Images of Death / John E. Seery. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©1996 1 online resource (240 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Contestations Frontmatter -- Contents -- CHAPTER ONE. The Academy -- CHAPTER TWO. The Cave -- CHAPTER THREE. The Tomb -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Womb -- CHAPTER FIVE. The Agora -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Despite an abundance of violence occurring in political contexts, no liberal political theorist since Thomas Hobbes has talked directly and coherently about death. John E. Seery does. He contends that liberalism desperately needs a theoretical framework in which to discuss pressing matters of human mortality. Among the contemporary political issues that cry out for theoretical articulation, Seery suggests, are abortion politics, ethnic cleansing, suicide assistance, national reparations, environmental degradation, and capital punishment. Seery offers a new conception of social contract theory as a framework for confronting death issues. He urges us to look to an older tradition of descent into an underworld, wherein classic theorists consulted poetically with the dead and acquired from them political insight and direction.In this lively book, Seery excavates the infernal tradition by rereading the politics of death in Platonism, early Christianity, and contemporary feminism. Building on those traditions, he proposes a new, constructive image of death that can serve democratic theory productively. Reconsidered from the "land of the shades," social contractarian theory is sufficiently altered that, for example, a pro-life Christian and a pro-choice secularist might be able to strike common ground upon which to discuss abortion politics. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Death Political aspects. Justice. Political science History. Philosophy. Political Science & Political History. POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 9783110536171 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501718311 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501718311 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501718311/original |
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