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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Contemporary Political Philosophy"”.
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American Transcendentalism Contra Contemporary Political Philosophy: Applications of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson to Liberal Democratic Capitalism, Platonism, Islamism, Technology, and the "end of History"
<p>I construct Thomas Carlyle's political philosophy in the contexts of twentieth-century and contemporary political philosophy by dialoging and contrasting Carlyle with the work of John Rawls, Alasdair MacIntyre, Jacques Ellul, and Sayyid Qutb, among others. I also focus my attention on Carlyle as …
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Reclaiming stability: the dialectic of stability and instability in capitalist society
… as a critical concept. Once a fundamental political category, stability has been largely abandoned in contemporary political philosophy. Through a dialectical analysis of capitalist stability and instability, I criticize this abandonment and demonstrate that the concept of stability is …
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An Inquiry into the nature of Justice
… this text and its preeminent position within contemporary Political Philosophy. In section 2 I will argue that the principles for distributive justice discussed in section 1 apply to international as well as intranational distributions and that the accounts of equality and liberty preferred in …
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The pornographical: a mimetic ethics of bodies
This thesis is situated across the fields of contemporary political philosophy, critical theory and feminist/gender studies. It argues that the notion of an ‘ana-aesthetic’ is required in order to provide a fuller sense of the conceptual nuances regarding pornography. The ‘ana-aesthetic’ is …
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The Gatekeeping Paradigm and the Constructivist Alternative
… draws heavily, albeit often uncritically, upon contemporary political philosophy. In this dissertation, I explore links between H. M. Collins and Robert Evans’s account of the appropriate role of public participation in technical policy debates, and Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson’s liberal …
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Frances Burney d’Arblay and Anglican Womanhood, 1752 – 1840.
… social criticism from the shadow of her near-contemporary Jane Austen. Yet such work has – with the exception of recent work on the colonial contexts of the Burney family as a whole – centred on the standard gendered contexts of elite social spaces and marriage markets. Frances Burney, …
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Reframing Excess: Death and Power in Contemporary Mexican Literary and Visual Culture
My PhD is a study of the politically charged literary and visual works that have emerged in response to escalating violence in contemporary Mexico. Providing close, comparative readings of fictional, theoretical and documentary works by critically-acclaimed authors Jorge Volpi, Cristina Rivera …
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From Alienation to Self-Realization: Pathologies of Late Modernity, Work, and the Successful Life
… (i) social pathologies, which, I argue, contemporary political philosophy is unable to adequately diagnose and (ii) the tyranny of work, which remains peripheral to modern political theory. Both of these factors impede the ability of subjects to establish successful relationships to …
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Instituting Dissensus: The Democratisation of Cultural Institutions in the 21st Century
… reinvention of democratic politics. Building on contemporary political philosophy, post-structuralist theory, and cultural studies, it begins by analysing both dissensus, as the democratic principle that entails the never-ending redefinition of the members of the society (meaning, whose voice is …