Democracy and Ontology

Irena Rosenthal is Assistant Professor at PPLE College at the University of Amsterdam.

• 1. Introduction I. Democracy II. Ontology III. Political Liberalism, Foucault and Psychoanalysis IV. Research Questions V. Overview of Chapters 2. Politicising Political Liberalism I. Introduction II. The Democratic Politicisation of Political Philosophy III. A ‘Freestanding’ Justification of Justice IV. Politicising Political Liberalism V. Conclusion 3. The Stimulation of Enlightened Contest I. Introduction II. ‘A Historical Ontology of Ourselves’ III. A Historical Ontology of Political Philosophy IV. Foucault’s Ethos of ‘Stimulating Contest’ V. The Stimulation of Enlightened Contest VI. Agonic Democracy VII. Conclusion 4. Agonic Democracy and the Exercise of Rights I. Introduction II. The Governmentalised State III. A Political Liberalist Approach to State-sanctioned Exclusions IV. The Ontological Remnants in Tomasi’s Social Theory V. Politicising Tomasi’s Concept of Legal Culture VI. Conclusion 5. Transit: Renegotiating Political Liberalism and Agonic Democracy 6. Drained by a Democratic ‘Burn-out’: The Emotional Burdens of Agonic Democracy I. Introduction II. A Democratic ‘Burn-out’ III. A Psychoanalytic Reading of Civic Loss IV. Emotional Boundary-marking V. Conclusion 7. Conclusion I. Politicising the Political Liberalist Ontology II. An Alternative Ontology of Democratic Politics III. The Democratic Politicisation of Ontology