The Return of Politics (New Edition) -- The Second Series of Modern Political Translations

Author: (English) Shantel Meek, translated by Wang Heng and 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, because of the of rationalism and essentialism, politics has been forgotten for a long time. 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. The author, standing on the "anti-essentialism" stance, re-discusses various discourses in political science, proposing that conflict and antagonism are the ineradicable nature of politics, and calls for a return to a radical and pluralistic politics.