Arguments and Fists
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Agnostic
Alliance Formation
Argum Ent
Author_Mika LaVaque Manty
Black Utility Heuristic
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Circuitous
claim
collective action theory
Communist Party USA
Cowardly Intellectualism
CPUSA
Enlightenm Ent
environmental
environmental activism theory
Environmental Justice Movement
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Fo Llow
Good Life
Inflamed Amour Propre
Internal Revenue Service
justice
legitimate
Liberal Political Agent
liberalism critique
makers
movement
Nimby Argument
Nimby Movement
Normative Holism
normative political philosophy
NSM Theory
Part III
philosophical foundations of political agency
political
political subjectivity
Presocial Identity
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Putative Ideals
reason
social movement analysis
Violated
Wild Duck
Product details
- ISBN 9780415931984
- Weight: 542g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 22 Mar 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Many theorists have addressed a central concern of current political theory by contending that the dithering intellectualism of left politics prevents genuine political action. Arguments and Fists confronts this concern by refuting these arguments, and reconciling philosophical debates with the realities of current activism. By looking at theorists such as Montesquieu, Kant, Rousseau, the book contradicts current academic debates and also goes against contemporary theory's image of the liberal political agent as a narrowly rational abstraction. Mika LaVaque-Manty also argues that progressive political philosophy and political action go hand in hand. He then ventures past Kant and Rousseau to talk about specific environmental activism, finding middle ground between the two while asserting that the liberal urge for political reform stems from sound philosophical considerations about the nature of politics and isn't the cowardly afterthoughts some theorists have called it. Arguments and Fists then puts these theoretical insights to use, examining environmental justice movements and varieties of environmental radicalism, showing how liberal theory illuminates concrete contemporary political practices.
