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082 0 4 _a320.01
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100 1 _aMcGuire, John
_c(Research Fellow)
245 1 0 _aCynical suspicions and Platonist pretentions :
_ba critique of contemporary political theory /
_cby John McGuire.
264 1 _aLeiden ;
_aBoston :
_bBrill,
_c2018.
300 _a1 online resource (vii, 239 pages)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aSocial and critical theory,
_x1572-459X ;
_vv. 22
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 0 _aFront 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.
506 _aAvailable to subscribing member institutions only.
520 _aIn 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.
650 0 _aPolitical science
_xPhilosophy.
650 0 _aCynicism.
650 0 _aGovernment accountability.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aMcGuire, John (Research Fellow).
_tCynical suspicions and Platonist pretentions.
_dLeiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018
_z9789004364912
_w(DLC) 2018002383
830 0 _aSocial and Critical Theory
_v22.
830 0 _aReligious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2018, ISBN: 9789004353350.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004364929
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