Cynical suspicions and Platonist pretentions : : a critique of contemporary political theory / / by John McGuire.
In Cynical Suspicions and Platonist Pretensions , John McGuire offers a critique of recent trends in contemporary political theory, specifically concerning the ‘dangers’ of cynicism and the contamination of public reason. In the view of many theorists and pundits, cynicism remains one of the gravest...
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| Superior document: | Social and critical theory ; Volume 22 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Social and critical theory.
Volume 22. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (247 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright page
- For Mary Margaret
- Introduction: Causarum Cognitio
- Naked in the Marketplace
- The Courage and Scourge of Truth
- The Resistible Rise of Rawlsian Reasonableness
- Thomas Pogge: Ethics and the Ire of the Beholden
- Nancy Fraser’s Subaltern Weltbürger Blues
- Jürgen Habermas’ Postmetaphysical Paralysis?
- Defacing the Political Currency: Cynicism as a Normative Perspective for Critical Theory.