TY  - BOOK
AU  - McGuire,John
TI  - Cynical suspicions and Platonist pretentions: a critique of contemporary political theory 
T2  - Social and critical theory,
SN  - 9789004364929
AV  - JA71 .M34 2018
U1  - 320.01 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Political science
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Cynicism
KW  - Government accountability
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; 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; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - 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 ills to befall any democratic society, injecting a virulent estrangement which leaves sufferers unable to trust elected representatives and unwilling to participate in collective action. Starting with a reconstruction of the performative and rhetorical tactics of the ‘first’ Cynic, Diogenes of Sinope (c. 323 BCE), John McGuire aims to demonstrate how cynicism’s non-defeatist, relentlessly sceptical ethos provides an important counterweight to the self-aggrandising designs of moralists and policymakers alike
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004364929
ER  -