Sustaining Affirmation
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A Theory of Justice
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Aestheticism
After Virtue
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Certainty
Citizenship
Communitarianism
Conceptualization (information science)
Consciousness
Criticism
Critique
Dynamism (metaphysics)
Emergence
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Ethics
Ethos
Expressivism
Ezra Pound
Flourishing
George Kateb
Good and evil
Henry David Thoreau
Ideology
Individual
Individualism
Inquiry
Institution
Jacques Derrida
Liberalism
Lifeworld
Martin Heidegger
Metanarrative
Modernity
Morality
Narrative
Ontology
Paternalism
Phenomenon
Philosopher
Philosophical language
Philosophy
Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
Political Liberalism
Political philosophy
Politics
Post-structuralism
Postmodernism
Potentiality and actuality
Princeton University Press
Public policy
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reality
Reason
Religion
Requirement
Richard Rorty
Self-interest
Self-Reliance
Sensibility
Skepticism
Sources of the Self
Subject (philosophy)
Subjectivity
The Philosopher
The Postmodern Condition
Theism
Theory
Thought
Uncertainty
Understanding
Utilitarianism
Weak ontology
Product details
- ISBN 9780691050331
- Weight: 28g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 25 Sep 2000
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In light of many recent critiques of Western modernity and its conceptual foundations, the problem of adequately justifying our most basic moral and political values looms large. Without recourse to traditional ontological or metaphysical foundations, how can one affirm--or sustain--a commitment to fundamentals? The answer, according to Stephen White, lies in a turn to "weak" ontology, an approach that allows for ultimate commitments but at the same time acknowledges their historical, contestable character. This turn, White suggests, is already underway. His book traces its emergence in a variety of quarters in political thought today and offers a clear and compelling account of what this might mean for our late modern self-understanding. As he elaborates the idea of weak ontology and the broad criteria behind it, White shows how these are already at work in the thought of contemporary writers of seemingly very different perspectives: George Kateb, Judith Butler, Charles Taylor, and William Connolly. Among these thinkers, often thought to be at odds, he exposes the commonalities that emerge around the idea of weak ontology.
In its identification of a critical turn in political theory, and its nuanced explanation of that turn, his book both demonstrates and underscores the strengths of weak ontology.
Stephen K. White teaches political theory at Virginia Tech. He is the editor of the journal Political Theory and author of several books, including Political Theory and Postmodernism and Edmund Burke: Politics, Modernity, and Aesthetics.
