Political Categories Thinking Beyond Concepts 1st Edition by Michael Marder 0231188684 9780231188685
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ISBN 10: 0231188684
ISBN 13: 9780231188685
Author: Michael Marder
Western philosophy has been dominated by the concept or the idea—the belief that there is one sovereign notion or singular principle that can make reality explicable and bring all that exists under its sway. In modern politics, this role is played by ideology. Left, right, or center, political schools of thought share a metaphysics of simplification. We internalize a dominant, largely unnoticeable framework, oblivious to complex, plural, and occasionally conflicting or mutually contradictory explanations for what is the case. In this groundbreaking work, Michael Marder proposes a new methodology for political science and philosophy, one which he terms “categorial thinking.” In contrast to the concept, no category alone can exhaust the meaning of anything: categories are so many folds, complications, respectful of multiplicity. Ranging from classical Aristotelian and Kantian philosophies to phenomenology and contemporary politics, Marder’s book offers readers a theoretical toolbox for the interpretation of political phenomena, processes, institutions, and ideas. His categorial apparatus encompasses political temporality and spatiality; the revolutionary and conservative modalities of political actuality, possibility, and necessity; quantitative and qualitative approaches to the study of political reality; the meaning of political relations; and various senses of political being. Under this lens, the political appears not as a singular concept but as a family of categories, allowing room for new, plural, and often antagonistic ideas about the state, the people, sovereignty, and power.
Table of contents:
1. Political Categories
Categorial Reduction; or, Reductio ad Conceptum
The Real Problem of Republicanism
Categories, Not Classifications
Infrapolitics and Intrapolitics
Ordinary Language Politics
A Categorial Politics of Truth
2. The Initial Approach: Aristotle
Ousia-Beingness-Presence
Quantity
Space
Relation
Positionality and Correlationality
Quality
3. The Second Look: Kant
A Form of Politics
Political Figurations
The Categories “Themselves”
An Excursus on Transtranscendental Reason
“Before” the Categories: Forms of Judgment
“After” the Categories: Schematism
4. The Categories “At Work”
State
Revolution
Power
Sovereignty
Appendix 1: Aristotle’s Categories—a Political Interpretation
Appendix 2: Kant’s “Transcendental Analytic” (Critique of Pure Reason)—a Political Interpretation
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