Political Ontology and International Political Thought

Vassilios Paipais is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of St Andrews, UK. He was previously Teaching Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He earned a PhD in International Relations from LSE and has published in various leading International Relations journals.

• Introduction: Ontology and depoliticisation in a pluralist world.- PART I: A Phenomenology of Depoliticisation in Theorising a Pluralist World.- Chapter 1: Depoliticisation in liberal and post-liberal ontologies.- Chapter 2: Depoliticisation in critical dialogic ontologies.- Chapter 3:Depoliticisation in agonistic ontologies.- PART II: Political Ontology and the Future of Politics.- Chapter 4: From stasis to tragedy: ontology and phenomenology of political difference.- Chapter 5: Traversing the fantasy and the ‘morning after’: from political ontology to theopolitical meontology.- Epilogue: The politics of (im)pure criticism.- Bibliography.- Index.