00000nam a2200000 i 4500 UP-1685954869149702432 Buklod 20240312111257.0 m |o d | cr ||||||||||| 240312s2019 nyu gr b|001 0|eng d 9780190903916 (hardback) 20837156 SS-12413 Forefront Php2,797.00 Department of Political Science DLC DMLS rda eng DMLUC JA 71 M36 2019 Mara, Gerald M. author. Between specters of war and visions of peace dialogic political theory and the challenges of politics Gerald M. Mara. New York Oxford University Press 2019. x, 270 pages 25 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction -- Chapter 1: Enmity or Friendship? -- Chapter 2: War and Order -- Chapter 3: Perpetual Peace -- Chapter 4: War is History -- Chapter 5: Political Philosophy Between War and Peace -- Notes -- References -- Index. "Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, recurring political violence at both state and non-state levels has eroded confidence in the progressively peaceful character of international relations, and has unsettled the parameters of political thought. Frames of peace and frames of war have, throughout Western thought, colored the questions that we ask about politics, the descriptions of the pragmatic and moral alternatives that we face, and the ideas and metaphors that we use at any given moment. These frames, as this book argues, also obscure too much of political life. Gerald M. Mara proposes, instead, a political philosophy that takes both war and peace seriously, and a style of theory committed to questioning rather than closure. He challenges two powerful currents in contemporary political philosophy: the verdict that "premodern" or "metaphysical" texts cannot speak to modern and postmodern societies and the insistence that all forms of political theory be some form of democratic theory. Mara reexamines seminal texts in the history of political theory, from Thucydides to Jacques Derrida, and from Machiavelli to Judith Butler, to examine how frames of reference of war and peace have structured both the writing of these texts, as well as interpretations of them. The result is not a linear history of ideas, but a series of conversations between them, and a democratic justification for moving beyond democratic theory. "-- Provided by publisher. "This book examines how ideas of war and peace have organized frames of reference within the history of political theory. It argues for a political philosophy that takes both conditions seriously and for a style of political theory committed to questioning not closure"-- Provided by publisher. Politics and war. Peace Political aspects. Political science History. Political science Philosophy. FO UPD DMLS JA 71 M36 2019 Book