Politics and Modernity
History of the Human Sciences Special Issue
1st Edition
Published on 30. July 1992
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-8039-8826-2 (ISBN)
Description
Politics and Modernity provides a critical review of the key interface of contemporary political theory and social theory about the questions of modernity and postmodernity.
Review essays offer a broad-ranging assessment of the issues at stake in current debates. Among the works reviewed are those of William Connolly, Anthony Giddens, J[um]urgen Habermas, Alasdair MacIntyre, Richard Rorty, Charles Taylor and Roy Bhaskar. As well as reviewing the contemporary literature, the contributors assess the historical roots of current problems in the works of Nietzsche and Max Weber.
Review essays offer a broad-ranging assessment of the issues at stake in current debates. Among the works reviewed are those of William Connolly, Anthony Giddens, J[um]urgen Habermas, Alasdair MacIntyre, Richard Rorty, Charles Taylor and Roy Bhaskar. As well as reviewing the contemporary literature, the contributors assess the historical roots of current problems in the works of Nietzsche and Max Weber.
Reviews / Votes
`This special issue is devoted to the theme of politics and modernity. The intellectual perspectives discussed have immediate resonances within a number of humanistic disciplines... Overall this is a well-crafted special issue, with a talented panel of reviewers and a prescient and pressing topic.' - The Times Higher Education SupplementMore details
Content
Introduction
Rationality Deferred
`What Have We To Do with Morals?' Nietzsche and Weber on History and Ethics - Tracey B Strong
Max Weber's Nietzschean Conception of Power - Mark E Warren
REVIEW ARTICLES
`The Next Village' - Peter Barham
Modernity, Memory and the Holocaust
Philosophy as the Mirror of Time - Zygmunt Bauman
Thin Ice - Ronald Beiner
Beyond the `Iron Cage' - Ian Burkitt
Anthony Giddens on Modernity and the Self
Modernity and its Other(s) - Diana Coole
Is Postmodern Politics Politics? - Geoffrey Hawthorn
The Idea of the Political - Peter Lassman
Tradition and Modernity - Charles Martindale
The Judgement of Nietzsche - David Owen
Philosophy, Politics, Modernity
Political Theory Without Foundations - Raymond Plant
Therapy for an Imaginary Invalid - Jeremy Rayner
Charles Taylor and the Malaise of Modernity
Is Bhaskar's Critical Realism only a Theoretical Realism? - John Shotter
Organicism, Pluralism and Civil Association; Some Neglected Political Thinkers - Charles Turner
Rationality Deferred
`What Have We To Do with Morals?' Nietzsche and Weber on History and Ethics - Tracey B Strong
Max Weber's Nietzschean Conception of Power - Mark E Warren
REVIEW ARTICLES
`The Next Village' - Peter Barham
Modernity, Memory and the Holocaust
Philosophy as the Mirror of Time - Zygmunt Bauman
Thin Ice - Ronald Beiner
Beyond the `Iron Cage' - Ian Burkitt
Anthony Giddens on Modernity and the Self
Modernity and its Other(s) - Diana Coole
Is Postmodern Politics Politics? - Geoffrey Hawthorn
The Idea of the Political - Peter Lassman
Tradition and Modernity - Charles Martindale
The Judgement of Nietzsche - David Owen
Philosophy, Politics, Modernity
Political Theory Without Foundations - Raymond Plant
Therapy for an Imaginary Invalid - Jeremy Rayner
Charles Taylor and the Malaise of Modernity
Is Bhaskar's Critical Realism only a Theoretical Realism? - John Shotter
Organicism, Pluralism and Civil Association; Some Neglected Political Thinkers - Charles Turner