{"product_id":"political-theory-and-the-displacement-of-politics-hardback-9780801427954","title":"Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics (Hardback) 9780801427954","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePolitical Theory and the Displacement of Politics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBonnie Honig (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780801427954\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 22 April 1993\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eBonnie Honig concludes the introduction to this fine book by invoking the virago: the female warrior who will not be contained within categoriesthat oppose masculinity against femininity or human rationality against theforces of nature. It is a fitting emblem for a book that takes up and perturbs an opposition that functions variously to divide reason from violence, liberal humanism from poststructuralist skepticism, and feminine passivity from masculine bravado. This is the opposition between virtú and virtue, and Honig calibrates it against a new measure she terms the 'displacement of politics.'.\u003c\/p\u003e (Political Theory) \u003cp\u003eHonig's sharp genealogical sensibilities and insights, her development of a position of agonistic amendable authority, the questions which she raises and the soothing answers she refuses, come together in an excellent book that engages and provokes its readers in ways which exemplify political theory at its best, animated but not displaced by politics.\u003c\/p\u003e (Journal of Politics) \u003cp\u003eThinkers as diverse as Plato, Aquinas, Hobbes, Locke, and Marx have relied,explicitly or implicitly, on the belief that there is some set of political and social arrangements most conducive to themaximization of human well-being and happiness. Bonnie Honig's illuminating and disquieting book provides an acute and much-needed analysis of some of the consequences and implications of this teleological assumption for contemporary political theory and, more generally, for the ways in which people tend to conceive of politics. Indeed, Honig argues that politics itself, at least insofar as it entails or expresses ultimately irreducible conflict, dissonance, resistance, and agonal struggle, has largely been displaced from or written out of political theory.\u003c\/p\u003e (American Quarterly)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book, Bonnie Honig rethinks that established relation between politics and political theory. From liberal to communitarian to republican, political theorists of opposing positions often treat political theory less as an exploration of politics than as a series of devices of its displacement. Honig 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 explores an alternative politics of virtù, which treats the disruptions of political order as valued sites of democratic freedom and individuality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Negotiating Positions: The Politics of Virtue and Virtu\u003cbr\u003e 2. Kant and the Concept of Respect for Persons\u003cbr\u003e Beginnings\u003cbr\u003e Respect for the Moral Law\u003cbr\u003e Reverence-Respect for Persons\u003cbr\u003e Teleological Respect for Persons\u003cbr\u003e Liberal Respect for Persons\u003cbr\u003e Setting the Conditions for Moral Improvement\u003cbr\u003e Kant's Virtue Theory of Politics\u003cbr\u003e 3. Nietzsche and the Recovery of Responsibility\u003cbr\u003e Three Kinds of Recovery\u003cbr\u003e The Genealogical Recovery of Responsibility\u003cbr\u003e The Re-covery of Responsibility: Against Remorse\u003cbr\u003e The Re-covery of Responsibility: Eternal Recurrence\u003cbr\u003e Alternative Responsibilities: The Self as a Work of Art\u003cbr\u003e Nietzsche's Re-covery of Virtue as Virtu\u003cbr\u003e Nietzsche's Reverence for Institutions\u003cbr\u003e 4. Arendt's Accounts of Action and Authority\u003cbr\u003e Action, Identity, and the Self\u003cbr\u003e Acting through Speech: Promising and Forgiveness\u003cbr\u003e The Postulates of Action\u003cbr\u003e Stabilizing Performatives: Arendt, Austin, and Derrida\u003cbr\u003e Acting through Writing: Founding the New American Republic\u003cbr\u003e The Undecidability of the American Declaration of Independence\u003cbr\u003e Intervention, Augmentation, and Resistability: Arendt's Practice of Political Authority\u003cbr\u003e Making Space for Arendt's Virtu Theory of Politics\u003cbr\u003e 5. Rawls and the Remainders of Politics\u003cbr\u003e Reconciliation or Politicization?\u003cbr\u003e The Politics of Originating Positions\u003cbr\u003e The Practice of Punishment\u003cbr\u003e Irresponsible Rogues and Idiosyncratic Misfits\u003cbr\u003e Liberal and Other Alternatives\u003cbr\u003e 6. Sandel and the Proliferation of Political Subjects\u003cbr\u003e Two Kinds of Dispossession\u003cbr\u003e The Communitarian Subject of Possession\u003cbr\u003e Occasions for Politics\u003cbr\u003e Politics as Friendship\u003cbr\u003e Morally Deep Questions\u003cbr\u003e Morally Deep Answers\u003cbr\u003e The Rawlsian Supplement\u003cbr\u003e 7. Renegotiating Positions: Beyond the Virtue-Virtu Opposition\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52531217465624,"sku":"9780801427954","price":75.67,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/political-theory-and-the-displacement-of-politics-hardback-9780801427954","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}