Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics / / Bonnie Honig.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• VerfasserIn: Honig, Bonnie,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 30th Anniversary Edition
• Language: English
• Series: Contestations
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (300 p.)

Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics, originally published in 1993, has been called a founding text of agonism, which treats political contestation not as a regrettably necessary way to correct political imperfections but as a necessary, sometimes joyful feature of democratic life. As Bonnie Honig writes in the preface to this thirtieth anniversary edition, "the agonism that informs this book is democratic: it is committed to shared spaces and relational practices that allow diverse groups to set and re-set the terms of living together as equals."By rethinking the established relation between politics and political theory, Honig argues that political theorists of opposing positions often treat political theory less as an exploration of politics than as a series of devices for its displacement. She 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 instead explores an alternative politics of virtú, which treats the disruptions of political order as valued sites of democratic freedom and individuality.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the 30th Anniversary Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- CHAPTER ONE Negotiating Positions: The Politics of Virtue and Virtù -- CHAPTER TWO Kant and the Concept of Respect for Persons -- CHAPTER THREE Nietzsche and the Recovery of Responsibility -- CHAPTER FOUR Arendt’s Accounts of Action and Authority -- CHAPTER FIVE Rawls and the Remainders of Politics -- CHAPTER SIX Sandel and the Proliferation of Political Subjects -- CHAPTER SEVEN Renegotiating Positions: Beyond the Virtue-Virtù Opposition -- Notes -- Index