{"product_id":"political-theory-and-modernity-isbn-9780631170341","title":"Political Theory and Modernity","description":"Modernity is marked by acrimonious debate over the form of the good society and the proper shape of politics. But these struggles are set within a frame that supports some arguments and rules other possibilities out of contention. If late-modernity is a time of danger as well as significant achievement, it is necessary to ask: how can we become more reflective about the economies of thought which have governed modern political discourse?  \u003cp\u003eWilliam Connolly clarifies the affinities binding together disparate theorists who have sought to comprehend the shape and prospects of modernity. He reveals how thinkers adamantly opposed to one another at one level implicitly share assumptions and demands at a more basic level; and invites Nietzsche - the thinker who disturbs modern theories by assessing them from the hypothetical perspective of a non-modern future - to expose patterns of insistence inside the theories of his predecessors.\u003c\/p\u003e Preface vii \u003cp\u003e1 The Order of Modernity 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe modern frame 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA madman speaks 7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModernity and nihilism 12\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Hobbes: The Politics of Divine Containment 16\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe ontological context 16\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe light of reason 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNature, madness and artifice 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRhetorics of nature and sovereignty 30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStrategies of sovereignty 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReason, faith and power 35\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Rousseau: Docility Through Citizenship 41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe eloquence of nature 41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe simplicity of nature 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe paradox of politics 53\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe politics of virtue 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFaith, generality and will 61\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInterlude 1 Hobbes, Rousseau and the Marquis de Sade 68\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe holy alliance 68\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe blindness of nature 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe politics of pornography 79\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Hegel: The politics of Inclusivity 86\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMadness and knowledge 86\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommunity and subjectivity 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFaith and Enlightenment 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe perfection of Enlightenment 111\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInterlude 2 Hegel, Marx and the State 116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe unity of the state 116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe state without Spirit 121\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePauperism and politics 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe state of modernity 128\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Nietzsche: Politics and Homesickness 137\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTruth and homesickness 137\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA genealogy of the subject 147\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Nietzschean ethic 160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe fate of modernity 168\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 176\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 190\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eWilliam E. Connolly \u003c\/b\u003eis editor of Political Theory and Professor of Political Science at The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. His books include The Terms of Political Discourse (1974, second edition 1983), Appearance and Reality in Politics (1981) and Politics and Ambiguity (1987), and he co-edits with Steven Lukes the series Readings in Social and Political Theory (published by Basil Blackwell and New York University Press).  Modernity is marked by acrimonious debate over the form of the good society and the proper shape of politics. But these struggles are set within a frame that supports some arguments and rules other possibilities out of contention. If late-modernity is a time of danger as well as significant achievement, it is necessary to ask: how can we become more reflective about the economies of thought which have governed modern political discourse?  \u003cp\u003eWilliam Connolly clarifies the affinities binding together disparate theorists who have sought to comprehend the shape and prospects of modernity. He reveals how thinkers adamantly opposed to one another at one level implicitly share assumptions and demands at a more basic level; and invites Nietzsche - the thinker who disturbs modern theories by assessing them from the hypothetical perspective of a non-modern future - to expose patterns of insistence inside the theories of his predecessors.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989805711589,"sku":"NP9780631170341","price":40.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631170341.jpg?v=1761785535","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/political-theory-and-modernity-isbn-9780631170341","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}