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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      August 2015
      August 2015
      ISBN:
      9781316271612
      9781107109384
      9781107521582
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316271612
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.57kg, 287 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.44kg, 292 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Political Theory, Politics and International Relations, Philosophy, Political Philosophy
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    Modern political conflict characteristically reflects and represents deep-seated but also unacknowledged and un-analyzed disagreements about what it means to be 'objective'. In defending this proposition, Peter J. Steinberger seeks to reaffirm the idea of rationalism in politics by examining important problems of public life explicitly in the light of established philosophical doctrine. The Politics of Objectivity invokes, thereby, an age-old, though now widely ignored, tradition of western thought according to which all political thinking is inevitably embedded in and underwritten by larger structures of metaphysical inquiry. Building on earlier studies of the idea of the state, and focusing on highly contested practices of objectivity in judgement, this book suggests that political conflict is an essentially discursive enterprise deeply implicated in the rational pursuit of theories about how things in the world really are.

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    ‘This book boldly addresses a complex world of political ideas and theories, working to unearth the metaphysical commitments that govern social and political existence. Engaging a universe of discourse that infuses the state, procedural justice, and political conflict, Steinberger generates a remarkable understanding of objectivity and its place in political life.’

    Lucas Swaine - Dartmouth College

    ‘An ambitious and insightful book about the philosophic foundations of any adequate understanding of politics. A very impressive defense of an unfashionable approach to political philosophy.’

    Bernard Yack - Lerman-Neubauer Professor of Democracy, Brandeis University, Massachusetts

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