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Dancing in Chains

Narrative and Memory in Political Theory

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Book Dancing in Chains Joshua Foa Dienstag
Libristo code: 04716599
Publishers Stanford University Press, April 1997
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Philosophy is often depicted as generically distinct from literature, myth, and history, as a discipline that eschews narration and relies exclusively on abstract reason. This book takes issue with that assumption, arguing instead that political philosophers have commonly presented their readers with a narrative, rather than a logic, of politics. The book maintains that philosophical texts frequently persuade through the creation of a role that they invite their audience to inhabit. Political theory is most powerful not when it erects timeless principles, but when it alters readers' understanding of their own past and future. By this the author means that a theorist's account of history or of time itself is in many instances the center of (and not merely an addendum to) an account of human nature and politics; political theory seeks not so much to reform our morals as to reshape our memories.

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Full name Dancing in Chains
Language English
Binding Book - Paperback
Date of issue 1997
Number of pages 284
EAN 9780804729246
ISBN 0804729247
Libristo code 04716599
Weight 402
Dimensions 229 x 155 x 27
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