Oliver Flügel-Martinsen: Critical Political Theory, Flexibler Einband
Critical Political Theory
- Interrogating Contemporary Politics
- Translation:
- Michael Thomas Taylor
- Publisher:
- Transcript Verlag, 12/2025
- Binding:
- Flexibler Einband
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9783837652154
- Item number:
- 12549570
- Volume:
- 126 Pages
- Weight:
- 222 g
- Format:
- 221 x 131 mm
- Thickness:
- 17 mm
- Release date:
- 8.12.2025
- Series:
- X-Texte zu Kultur und Gesellschaft
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
How can political theory strengthen democracy and emancipatory social change while remaining critical of its own norms and foundations? How can it confront populist movements that claim to defend democracy but in fact advance authoritarian agendas? Oliver Flügel-Martinsen engages with key thinkers of the political - among them M. Foucault, J. Derrida, C. Lefort, C. Mouffe, I. M. Young, J. Rancière, W. Brown, R. Geuss, A. Mbembe, and J. Butler - to address these challenges. Revisiting truth-skeptical approaches, neoliberal hegemony, exclusions in the name of an essentialist understanding of the people, and global injustices, he explores how critical theory can help us escape the present in working toward a different future.
Biography (Oliver Flügel-Martinsen)
Oliver Flügel-Martinsen (PD Dr. phil.), Philosoph und Politologe, lehrt Politische Theorie an der Leibniz Universität Hannover. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen in den Feldern der Philosophie und Politischen Theorie der Moderne sowie der Ideengeschichte.