The Impasse of Post-Metaphysical Political Theory: On Derrida and Foucault

Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2012 (161):79-98 (2012)
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ExcerptIntroduction Stephen K. White, whose work represents one of the more well-known recent attempts to define a paradigm of post-metaphysical political thought, is indicative of the omission of an impasse that this article will argue seems to haunt this field. White has proposed, in defense of accusations of a thoroughgoing relativism, that the discipline should be conceived in terms of what he calls, echoing a concept coined by Gianni Vattimo, “weak ontology.”1 White argues that to describe ontology as “weak” denotes that in the absence of transcendent grounds there is necessarily an “essential contestability” to the…

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reprint Rekret, P. (2012) "The Impasse of Post-Metaphysical Political Theory: On Derrida and Foucault". Télos 2012(161):79-98

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Paul Rekret
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