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Political Theory and Modernity
William Connolly (Author)
9780631170341, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 29 August 1989
212 pages
22.9 x 15.4 x 1.6 cm, 0.312 kg
Modernity is marked by acrimonious debate over the form of the good society and the proper shape of politics. But these struggles are set within a frame that supports some arguments and rules other possibilities out of contention. If late-modernity is a time of danger as well as significant achievement, it is necessary to ask: how can we become more reflective about the economies of thought which have governed modern political discourse? William Connolly clarifies the affinities binding together disparate theorists who have sought to comprehend the shape and prospects of modernity. He reveals how thinkers adamantly opposed to one another at one level implicitly share assumptions and demands at a more basic level; and invites Nietzsche - the thinker who disturbs modern theories by assessing them from the hypothetical perspective of a non-modern future - to expose patterns of insistence inside the theories of his predecessors.
Preface vii 1 The Order of Modernity 1 The modern frame 1 A madman speaks 7 Modernity and nihilism 12 2 Hobbes: The Politics of Divine Containment 16 The ontological context 16 The light of reason 21 Nature, madness and artifice 26 Rhetorics of nature and sovereignty 30 Strategies of sovereignty 33 Reason, faith and power 35 3 Rousseau: Docility Through Citizenship 41 The eloquence of nature 41 The simplicity of nature 47 The paradox of politics 53 The politics of virtue 57 Faith, generality and will 61 Interlude 1 Hobbes, Rousseau and the Marquis de Sade 68 The holy alliance 68 The blindness of nature 72 The politics of pornography 79 4 Hegel: The politics of Inclusivity 86 Madness and knowledge 86 Community and subjectivity 93 Faith and Enlightenment 100 The perfection of Enlightenment 111 Interlude 2 Hegel, Marx and the State 116 The unity of the state 116 The state without Spirit 121 Pauperism and politics 125 The state of modernity 128 5 Nietzsche: Politics and Homesickness 137 Truth and homesickness 137 A genealogy of the subject 147 A Nietzschean ethic 160 The fate of modernity 168 Notes 176 Bibliography 183 Index 190
Subject Areas: Politics & government [JP]
