Reinterpreting the Political

Lenore Langsdorf is Professor of the Philosophy of Communication in the Speech Communication Department of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. She is coeditor with Andrew R. Smith of Recovering Pragmatism's Voice: The Classical Tradition, Rorty, and the Philosophy of Communication and coeditor with Stephen H. Watson of Phenomenology, Interpretation, and Community, both published by SUNY Press. She is also editor of the SUNY Press series in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences. Stephen H. Watson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Extensions: Essays on Interpretation, Rationality, and the Closure of Modernism, also published by SUNY Press.

• Introduction: The Question of the Political I. Reinterpretations 1. Keirkegaard on Authoring and Identity fron the Perspective of Havel's Existential Revolution and Nonpolitical Politics Martin J. Beck Matustík 2. A Nietzchean Defense of Democracy Lawrence J. Hatabi3. Husserl's Göttingen Years and the Genesis of a Theory of Community R. Philip Buckley4. Edith Stein's Phenomology of the State Mary Catherine Basehart5. Beauvoir and the Roots of Radical Feminism Margaret A. Simons6. Action, Passion, and Responsibility: Levinas's Circumcision of Consciousness Robert D. Walsh7. Lyotard's Kantian Account of the Subline and Democratic Discourse Patrick F. MckinlayII. Theory and Politics: On the Fragmentation of the Political 8. The Circle of the Origin Fabio Ciaramelli9. Fichte, Habermas, and Luc Ferry John Doody10. Rights, Narrative, and Legal Practice David M. Rasmussen11. Reconsidering the Limits of Democracy with Castoriadias and Lefort Steven Hendley12. Against Dialoque Michael Murray13. Decentered Autonomy: The Subject after the Fall Axel Honneth14. American/French Intersections: The Play of Race/Class/Politics in Irigaray Ellen T. ArmourIII. A Cas in Point: The Uses of Foucault and the Legacies of Enlightenment 15. Beheading the King: Foucault on the Limits of Juridical Thought Lawrence Hass16. Power: Method of the Deployment of Sexuality John Carvalho17. Beyond Pluralism: Foucault's Strategic Counter to Heterosexist Categories Ladelle McWhorter18. Of Perestroika, Glasnost, and Badgers: Barthes and Foucault on Power and Discourse Nancy J. Holland19. Truth and Power in Foucault James L. Marsh20. Expert Discourse of Critique: Foucault as Power/Knowledge Linda AlcoffList of Contributors Index

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