Fictive Theories: Towards a Deconstructive and Utopian Political Imagination by

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Fictive Theories is a significant and innovative intervention in key debates in political theory concerning the ways theory should be philosophically grounded, and the task that political theory should set itself.

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Fictive Theories is a significant and innovative intervention in key debates in political theory concerning the ways theory should be philosophically grounded, and the task that political theory should set itself. Susan McManus argues that political theory has been grounded in controlling fictions (from fictions of human nature, to morals laws) that function to close possibility. Starting by interrogating the often hidden work of fictions in political theories, she argues that all theorizing is a form of world-creating. Rather than hiding the fictions at work in political theory, McManus argues that theory should become self-consciously fictive, and that there are political and ethical advantages to so doing. She then develops a uniquely deconstructive and utopian understanding of the project of political theory grounded in the 'fictive': a creative and future-oriented imagination. Rather than seeking to provide blueprints of how a polity should be organized, fictive theories seek to fabricate futures through the anticipatory articulation of possibility. Drawing on a rich range of thinkers from the traditions of political theory (Hobbes, Rousseau, Kant), deconstructive theory (Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida) and utopian studies (Ernst Bloch), this book will be of interest to researchers, teachers and students in the fields of political theory, utopian studies, literary theory and cultural studies.

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SUSAN MCMANUS is Lecturer in Political Theory at Queens University, Belfast, UK.

Author Biography

SUSAN MCMANUS is Lecturer in Political Theory at Queens University, Belfast, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction: The Politics of Fictive Theories: Reading/Writing/Theory PART I: SPECULATIVE BEGINNINGS Hobbes: The Impossible Narrative of Nature Rousseau: Conceiving the Inconceivable Excursus: 'Mere High-Flown Fantasy...'? (Kant on Holiday) PART II: FICTIONS OF SELF-EVIDENCE Stirner, Marx, Derrida: Beyond the Material/Utopian Epiphany and/or Politics? Nietzsche PART III: FABRICATING THE FUTURE(S) Bloch's Utopian Imagination: Fictive Theories Towards a Conclusion: Creative Epistemologies of Possibility

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SUSAN MCMANUS is Lecturer in Political Theory at Queens University, Belfast, UK.

Details ISBN1403966680 Series Studies in European Culture and History Language English ISBN-10 1403966680 ISBN-13 9781403966681 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY 321.07 Year 2005 Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Subtitle Towards a Deconstructive and Utopian Political Imagination Place of Publication Gordonsville Country of Publication United States Short Title FICTIVE THEORIES 2005/E Pages 227 Edition 2005th DOI 10.1604/9781403966681 AU Release Date 2005-06-15 NZ Release Date 2005-06-15 US Release Date 2005-06-15 UK Release Date 2005-06-15 Illustrations VII, 227 p. Author S. McManus Publisher Palgrave USA Edition Description 2005 ed. Publication Date 2005-06-15 Alternative 9781349529728 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this

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