Political Encounters A Hermeneutic Inquiry into the Situation of Political Obligation /

• Main Author: Brown, Ruairidh J. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Political theory.; Political philosophy.; Citizenship.; Political Theory.; Political Philosophy.

This book takes the novel approach of framing Political Obligation as a situation rather than a problem. By doing so, Political Obligation is not considered as an issue to be solved, but a central condition of existence to be investigated and understood. The book launches a hermeneutic inquiry into...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The 'Rational Individual'- Rational Paradigms of Political Obligation
• 3. The Importance of Tradition and Culture- Context-based Paradigms of Political Obligation
• 4. The Oppressor and the Oppressed- Marxist and Other Critical Paradigms of Political Obligation
• 5. Inside the Situation- Introducing the Hermeneutic Concept of Encounter
• 6.The Encounter and Obligation
• 7. Political Obligation and the Post-truth Era- Limitation, Critique, and a Defense of the Approach through the Encounter
• 8. Conclusion. .