Return of politics

Author: (English) Shantall Murphy / Wang Heng / Zang Peihong
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: On the ruins of modernity and in the perspective of postmodernity, liberalism has not achieved the expected success; at the same time, politics has been forgotten for a long time due to the of rationalism and essentialism. This book points out that the traditional liberal democratic political theory has demonstrated incompetence in addressing contemporary ethnic, religious, and national conflicts, indicating that the entire Western democratic theory is experiencing a legitimacy crisis. Standing on the position of "anti-essentialism," the authors re-discuss various discourses in political science, proposing that conflict and antagonism are the irrepressible nature of politics, and they call for a return to a radical and pluralistic politics.