TY  - BOOK
AU  - White,Stephen K.
TI  - Sustaining Affirmation: The Strengths of Weak Ontology in Political Theory 
SN  - 9781400823918
AV  - JA71 
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Ontology
KW  - Political science
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Political
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Althusser, Louis
KW  - Bentham, Jeremy
KW  - Caputo, John
KW  - Deleuze, Gilles
KW  - Derrida, Jacques
KW  - Dewey, John
KW  - Emersonians
KW  - Ereignis (Heidegger)
KW  - Foucault, Michel
KW  - Freud, Sigmund
KW  - Gelassenheit (Heidegger)
KW  - Gestell (Heidegger)
KW  - Habermas, Jürgen
KW  - Heidegger, Martin
KW  - Johnson, Samuel
KW  - Kristeva, Julia
KW  - Kymlicka, Will
KW  - Larmore, Charles
KW  - Lyotard, Jean-François
KW  - MacIntyre, Alasdair
KW  - Milosz, Czeslaw
KW  - Moon, J. Donald
KW  - Rawls, John
KW  - Rorty, Richard
KW  - Schopenhauer, Arthur
KW  - Skinner, Quentin
KW  - Spivak, Gayatri
KW  - Strauss, Leo
KW  - Voegelin, Eric
KW  - Walzer, Michael
KW  - Whitman, Walt
KW  - Wittig, Monique
KW  - abundance: fugitive
KW  - autonomy, individual: cultural integrity and (Taylor)
KW  - body, the: Butler’s account of
KW  - conscience: formation of (Butler)
KW  - cultivation: of critical responsiveness
KW  - culture: good of a (Taylor)
KW  - epiphany (Taylor)
KW  - existence: attachment to (Kateb)
KW  - interpellation: of Althusser
KW  - ontology, strong
KW  - ontology: in Butler
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; PREFACE --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; Chapter One INTRODUCTION: THE WEAK ONTOLOGICAL TURN --; Chapter Two ONTOLOGICAL UNDERCURRENTS WITHIN LIBERALISM: GEORGE KATEB'S "DEMOCRATIC INDIVIDUALITY" --; Chapter Three THE "RICHER ONTOLOGY" OF CHARLES TAYLOR --; Chapter Four JUDITH BUTLER'S BEING-IN-TROUBLE --; Chapter Five THE ONTOLOGY AND POLITICS OF A "POST-NIETZSCHEAN SENSIBILITY": WILLIAM CONNOLLY --; CONCLUSION --; INDEX; restricted access
N2  - In light of many recent critiques of Western modernity and its conceptual foundations, the problem of adequately justifying our most basic moral and political values looms large. Without recourse to traditional ontological or metaphysical foundations, how can one affirm--or sustain--a commitment to fundamentals? The answer, according to Stephen White, lies in a turn to "weak" ontology, an approach that allows for ultimate commitments but at the same time acknowledges their historical, contestable character. This turn, White suggests, is already underway. His book traces its emergence in a variety of quarters in political thought today and offers a clear and compelling account of what this might mean for our late modern self-understanding.As he elaborates the idea of weak ontology and the broad criteria behind it, White shows how these are already at work in the thought of contemporary writers of seemingly very different perspectives: George Kateb, Judith Butler, Charles Taylor, and William Connolly. Among these thinkers, often thought to be at odds, he exposes the commonalities that emerge around the idea of weak ontology. In its identification of a critical turn in political theory, and its nuanced explanation of that turn, his book both demonstrates and underscores the strengths of weak ontology
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400823918?locatt=mode:legacy
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