Between Specters of War and Visions of Peace

Name: Between Specters of War and Visions of Peace
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By Mara, Gerald M.

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Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, recurring political violence at both state and non-state levels has eroded confidence in the progressively peaceful character of international relations, and has unsettled the parameters of political thought. Frames of peace and frames of war have, throughout Western thought, colored the questions that we ask about politics, the descriptions of the pragmatic and moral alternatives that we face, and the ideas and metaphors that we use at any given moment. These frames, as this book argues, also obscure too much of political life. Gerald M. Mara proposes, instead, a political philosophy that takes both war and peace seriously, and a style of theory committed to questioning rather than closure. He challenges two powerful currents in contemporary political philosophy: the verdict that "premodern" or "metaphysical" texts cannot speak to modern and postmodern societies and the insistence that all forms of political theory be some form of democratic theory. Mara reexamines seminal texts in the history of political theory, from Thucydides to Jacques Derrida, and from Machiavelli to Judith Butler, to examine how frames of reference of war and peace have structured both the writing of these texts, as well as interpretations of them. The result is not a linear history of ideas, but a series of conversations between them, and a democratic justification for moving beyond democratic theory.

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Number of Pages:: 282
Release Date:: 2019-05-01
Publication Date:: 2019-05-01
Publisher:: OXFORD UNIV PR
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0190903910
ISBN13:: 9780190903916
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 590 g
Height:: 16.1 cm
Width:: 24 cm
Thickness:: 2 cm

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