René Girard and Political Philosophy

Imitating Freedom

Kent U. Enns (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2017
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4725-8548-6 (ISBN)

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More people live under democratic governments than ever before, in a state of relative `freedom’. But the majority of us pursue goals, goods and desires defined by others. And so our era of greatest political freedom, in conjunction with free markets and consumerism, has unleashed the greatest frenzy of imitation. From Plato to Rawls, political thinkers assumed that we have sufficient rational power and freedom to resolve the conflicts posed by our highly social yet volatile human nature. René Girard thinks otherwise. René Girard and Political Philosophy brings Girard's evolutionarily informed and apocalyptic thought into confrontation with the key thinkers of the Western tradition of political philosophy and in doing so rewrites the history of political philosophy in light of mimetic theory and its more recent connection to evolutionary thought.

This book expands Girard scholarship, emphasizing the relevance of evolutionary theory to political philosophy, and articulating a new understanding of Girard, politics and political philosophy. Kent Enns' line of interpretation produces not only a mimetic reading of key political thinkers such as Hobbes, Rousseau, Nozick, Aristotle, Hume and Hayek, but also the case for reassessing the entire tradition, presenting the idea of a mimetic political philosophy.

Kent Enns is Professor of Political Theory at Humber College, Canada. Prior to this he was lecturer on the histories of western philosophy and political thought at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Introduction: René Girard and Political Philosophy
1. Liberalism and the Modern Denial of Our Mimetic Nature
2. René Girard’s Mimetic Theory: An Evolutionary-Political Account
3. The Mimetic-Political Tradition in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
4. The Mimetic-Political Tradition in Enlightenment Philosophy
5. Mimetic-Political Philosophy under “Equality of Conditions”
6. Girard’s Political Theology: Apocalyptic Depoliticization or Evolutionary Realism?
Conclusion: The Case for a Mimetic Political Philosophy
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.11.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-4725-8548-8 / 1472585488
ISBN-13	978-1-4725-8548-6 / 9781472585486
Zustand	Neuware