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Paperback. "Fictive Theories" reconceives political theory as an open-ended project grounded in a future-oriented imagination, and as a space of creative possibilities. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; HPS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Fictive Theories is a significant and innovative intervention in key debates in political theory concerning the ways theory should be philosophically grounded, and the task that political theory should set itself. Susan McManus argues that political theory has been grounded in controlling fictions (from fictions of human nature, to morals laws) that function to close possibility. Starting by interrogating the often hidden work of fictions in political theories, she argues that all theorizing is a form of world-creating. Rather than hiding the fictions at work in political theory, McManus argues that theory should become self-consciously fictive, and that there are ... Read more
Fictive Theories is a significant and innovative intervention in key debates in political theory concerning the ways theory should be philosophically grounded, and the task that political theory should set itself. Susan McManus argues that political theory has been grounded in controlling fictions (from fictions of human nature, to morals laws) that function to close possibility. Starting by interrogating the often hidden work of fictions in political theories, she argues that all theorizing is a form of world-creating. Rather than hiding the fictions at work in political theory, McManus argues that theory should become self-consciously fictive, and that there are ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
Series
Studies in European Culture and History
Number of Pages
227
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349529728
SKU
V9781349529728
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About S. McManus
SUSAN MCMANUS is Lecturer in Political Theory at Queens University, Belfast, UK.
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