Sustaining Affirmation: The Strengths of Weak Ontology in Political Theory - Image 1

£31.24

Princeton University Press Sustaining Affirmation: The Strengths of Weak Ontology in Political Theory

Name: Sustaining Affirmation: The Strengths of Weak Ontology in Political Theory
Brand: Princeton University Press
Price: 31.24 GBP
Availability: InStock

Blue

Political Science

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

£31 today · previous high £31 · all-time low £31

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 40 days • 40 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 40 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £31 (40 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £31 - £31

Price levels: 1 different prices over 40 days

Description

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.

Product Specifications

Brand: Princeton University Press
Colour: Blue
Format: paperback
ASIN: 0691050333
Category: Books > Subjects > Politics, Philosophy & Social Sciences > Government & Politics > Political Science & Ideology > Political Science
Domain: Amazon UK
Publication Date: 25 September 2000
Listed Since: 13 February 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

Princeton University Press Sustaining Affirmation: The Strengths of Weak Ontology in Political Theory

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Epistemologie Und Asthetik: Die Philosophie Der Dichtung Im Spiegel Ihrer Transformationen

Beyond the Analytic-Continental Divide: Pluralist Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy)

Oxford University Press - What Is, and What Is In Itself

Springer - Existence as a Real Property: The Ontology of Meinongianism

Art and Objects

Existence as a Real Property: The Ontology of Meinongianism: 356 (Synthese Library, 356)

The Philosophy of Nicolai Hartmann

Ontology, Epistemology, and Teleology for Modeling and Simulation: Philosophical Foundations for Intelligent M&S Applications: 44 (Intelligent Systems Reference Library, 44)

Ontology Revisited: Metaphysics in Social and Political Philosophy (Ontological Explorations Routledge Critical Realism)

On the Universality of What Is Not: The Apophatic Turn in Critical Thinking

From a Philosophical Point of View – Selected Studies

Ontology Revisited: Metaphysics in Social and Political Philosophy (Ontological Explorations Routledge Critical Realism)

Being: A Study in Ontology

The Politics and Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)

Social Imaginary and the Metaphysical Discourse: On the Fundamental Predicament of Contemporary Philosophy and Social Sciences (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)

Theoretical Writings: Alain Badiou (Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers)

Routledge Well-Founded Belief - Epistemic Basing Relation Book

Ontology of the Work of Art: The Musical Work, The Picture, The Architectural Work, The Film: 12 (Series in Continental Thought)

Springer - Theory and Applications of Ontology (2 Volumes)

The Ethics of Conceptualization: Tailoring Thought and Language to Need

The Four-Category Ontology: A Metaphysical Foundation for Natural Science

Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom (Classical Texts in Critical Realism Routledge Critical Realism)

Artefact Kinds: Ontology and the Human-Made World: 365 (Synthese Library, 365)

Powers and Capacities in Philosophy: The New Aristotelianism