Leslie Paul Thiele
Biographic Data
| ID | 1011014 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leslie Paul Thiele |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leslie Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Thiele |
| SIGNATURE | THIELE L P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2314-2058 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 124 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Longing for Total Dichotomies
Bernard Yack’s Longing for Total Revolution asserts that a prominent tradition of modern moral and political theory is founded on the binary opposition between nature and culture. Yack rejects this dichotomy in favor of an Aristotelean outlook, and in so doing embraces the opposition between the ancients and the moderns. Neither binary is as oppositional as Yack suggests. There is, however, a more viable distinction to be made between the ancient…
Politics of Technology—Specialty Grand Challenge
SPECIALTY GRAND CHALLENGE article Front. Polit. Sci., 08 May 2020Sec. Politics of Technology Volume 2 - 2020 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2020.00002
Nature 4.0: Assisted Evolution, De-extinction, and Ecological Restoration Technologies
Humans have served their needs and interests by modifying plants, animals, and ecosystems for millennia. Technology has expanded, accelerated, and intensified the impact. Experimental efforts are now under way to rescue or re-create nature employing highly sophisticated technologies. These endeavors are not aimed at satisfying basic human needs or serving economic interests; their goal is the conservation of biodiversity and ecological restoratio…
Human rights at the “end of nature”
Nature has been employed as a moral concept across the millennia. Human rights are beholden to nature as a normative standard, as they developed within a tradition of natural law and natural rights. Should contemporary advocates of human rights continue to deploy the standard of nature at a time when both its physical and metaphysical statuses are increasingly challenged? I argue that the life sciences help us understand human rights in terms of …
The decline of yuck: Moral judgment in the anthropocene
Post-sovereign power and leadership
Geoengineering and sustainability
Geoengineering is regarded by advocates as a creative and responsible technological option in the face of a climate emergency. Critics often see it as a hubristic attempt to play God, with disastrous consequences for the planet and humanity. These antipodal perspectives are represented by the ideal types of Prometheans and Gaians. Prometheans and Gaians typically talk past each other. The geoengineering debate can be made more fruitful by well ar…
Digital Politics Is the Game: See What Happens When Scholars Play It Well
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Enhancing and promoting interdisciplinarity in higher education
Practical Judgment, Narrative Experience and Wicked Problems
The Web We Weave: Online Education and Democratic Prospects
Near the end of The Public and Its Problems, John Dewey writes that the consummation of democracy will involve the art of full communication. The internet might appear to fulfill Dewey’s vision, increasing opportunities for inquiry, interaction, and renewal through the social construction of meaning. Yet certain forms of technologically mediated communication threaten the development of much needed skills for democracy. While citizenship educatio…
Politics and Biology: A Discussion of Peter K. Hatemi and Rose McDermott's Man Is by Nature a Political Animal: Evolution, Biology, and Politics
Man Is by Nature a Political Animal: Evolution, Biology, and Politics. Edited by Peter K. Hatemi and Rose McDermott. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2011. 352p. $80.00 cloth, $27.50 paper. Peter K. Hatemi and Rose McDermott's Man Is by Nature a Political Animal brings together some of the most important social scientists working at the intersection of political science, psychology, biology, and cognitive neuroscience. Given recent advan…
Indra's Net and the Midas Touch: Living Sustainably in a Connected World
An exploration of the impact of unintended consequences in an interdependent world and of the opportunities for creativity and community. We live today in a global web of interdependence, connected technologically, economically, politically, and socially. As a result of these expanding and deepening interdependencies, it has become impossible fully to control-or foretell-the effects of our actions. The world is rife with unintended consequences. …
The Ontology of Action: Arendt and the Role of Narrative
The Ontology of ActionArendt and the Role of Narrative Leslie Paul Thiele (bio) Hannah Arendt is best known for her trenchant analysis and original evaluation of political life. The sine qua non of politics is human action, which she celebrates above all other human capacities. Arendt equates action with freedom. Action in concert is identified as power. As the key element of power and the meaning of freedom, action brings about and preserves the…
Nihilism and Emancipation: Ethics, Politics, and Law
Nihilism and Emancipation: Ethics, Politics, and Law. By Gianni Vattimo. Edited by Santiago Zabala. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. 160p. $25.50 cloth, $18.00 paper. Gianni Vattimo is an Italian social democratic politician, a newspaper columnist, a philosopher, a strong advocate of an integrated Europe ... and a proud nihilist. Richard Rorty, who supplies the laudatory foreword to Nihilism and Emancipation, characterizes Vattimo as es…
Judging Hannah Arendt: A Reply to Zerilli
The Nature of Political Theory
The Nature of Political Theory. By Andrew Vincent. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 354p. $65.00.Survey texts exercise considerable violence upon the thinkers and works they assess. Andrew Vincent is no pacifist. Yet his book succeeds admirably in gaining breadth without unduly sacrificing depth and subtlety. Vincent's encyclopedic knowledge (with more than 500 titles in the bibliography) is coupled with a sharp critical eye and refreshingl…
A (Political) Philosopher by Any Other Name: The Roots of Heidegger’s Thought
Making Social Science Matter: Why Social Inquiry Fails and How It Can Succeed Again. Bent Flyvbjerg
De Geus, M. 1999. Ecological Utopias: Envisioning the Sustainable Society. International Books, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Thiele, L. 2000. de Geus, M. 1999. Ecological Utopias: Envisioning the Sustainable Society. International Books, Utrecht, The Netherlands.. Conservation Ecology 4(1):18. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-00154-040118
Common Sense, Judgment, and the Limits of Political Theory
Limiting Risks: Environmental Ethics as a Policy Primer
This article constructs a conceptual and normative framework for policy‐oriented discussions of environmental uncertainty and risk. Human‐caused environmental risks are unavoidable in a technologically and economically advanced society. Contemporary environmentalists deploy ecological and ethical axioms to structure the debate over environmental uncertainty and risk management. They adopt the “imperative of sustainability” and the “precautionary …
Learning the Lesson of Interdependence
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Evolutionary Narratives and Ecological Ethics
We are in trouble just now because we do not have a good story. We are in between stories. The old story, the account of how the world came to be and how we fit into it, is no longer effective. Yet we have not learned the new story.... We need a story that will educate us, a story that will heal, guide, and discipline us. Thomas Berry, The Dream of the Earth
Heidegger, History, and Hermeneutics Heidegger, Dilthey, and the Crisis of Historicism. Charles R. Bambach Martin Heidegger and the Problem of Historical Meaning. Jeffrey Andrew Barash Heidegger et so…
The Agony of Politics: The Nietzschean Roots of Foucault's Thought
The politics of Michel Foucault remain controversial, mainly because they remain ambiguous. His critics charge that the ambiguity is symptomatic of a theory that fosters moral abandon and political impotence. This predicament is frequently attributed to Nietzsche's influence. I outline the critics' charges and investigate to what extent Foucault's thought evidences Nietzschean roots. Specifically, I examine Nietzsche's glorification of struggle a…
The Nature of Political Theory
The Nature of Political Theory. By Andrew Vincent. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 354p. $65.00.Survey texts exercise considerable violence upon the thinkers and works they assess. Andrew Vincent is no pacifist. Yet his book succeeds admirably in gaining breadth without unduly sacrificing depth and subtlety. Vincent's encyclopedic knowledge (with more than 500 titles in the bibliography) is coupled with a sharp critical eye and refreshingl…
Postmodernity and the Routinization of Novelty: Heidegger on Boredom and Technology
Postmodernity is characterized by the routinization of novelty, evidenced in the drive for technological change that makes constant demands on and is constantly demanded by postmodern publics and elites. Martin Heidegger sees this technological drive as sustained by the basic mood of our times: profound boredom. Though Heidegger's analysis of moods, and particularly his account of boredom, have largely been ignored, his assessment of boredom prov…
Making Democracy Safe for the World: Social Movements and Global Politics
Social movements are phenomena that defy clear definition. They have an observable life, albeit one not completely quantifiable, which is characterized by the sustained interaction of individuals. They are probably best understood as fluid amalgams whose size, constitution, and course is determined largely by the social, cultural, and political terrain over which they pass, and which they stimulate and absorb. They are composites whose membership…
Nihilism and Emancipation: Ethics, Politics, and Law
Nihilism and Emancipation: Ethics, Politics, and Law. By Gianni Vattimo. Edited by Santiago Zabala. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. 160p. $25.50 cloth, $18.00 paper. Gianni Vattimo is an Italian social democratic politician, a newspaper columnist, a philosopher, a strong advocate of an integrated Europe ... and a proud nihilist. Richard Rorty, who supplies the laudatory foreword to Nihilism and Emancipation, characterizes Vattimo as es…
Nature 4.0: Assisted Evolution, De-extinction, and Ecological Restoration Technologies
Humans have served their needs and interests by modifying plants, animals, and ecosystems for millennia. Technology has expanded, accelerated, and intensified the impact. Experimental efforts are now under way to rescue or re-create nature employing highly sophisticated technologies. These endeavors are not aimed at satisfying basic human needs or serving economic interests; their goal is the conservation of biodiversity and ecological restoratio…
Geoengineering and sustainability
Geoengineering is regarded by advocates as a creative and responsible technological option in the face of a climate emergency. Critics often see it as a hubristic attempt to play God, with disastrous consequences for the planet and humanity. These antipodal perspectives are represented by the ideal types of Prometheans and Gaians. Prometheans and Gaians typically talk past each other. The geoengineering debate can be made more fruitful by well ar…
Judging Hannah Arendt: A Reply to Zerilli
Heidegger on Freedom: Political not Metaphysical
This essay analyzes modern and postmodern concepts of freedom and contrasts them to a Heideggerian understanding. Positive, negative, and what might be called Foucaultian or Nietzschean liberty are demonstrated to bear a common trait. In such modern and postmodern formulations, freedom is consistently identified with a form of mastery. This identification of freedom with mastery, I argue, encourages ecological abuse, supports the dangerous prerog…
Making Social Science Matter: Why Social Inquiry Fails and How It Can Succeed Again. Bent Flyvbjerg
Limiting Risks: Environmental Ethics as a Policy Primer
This article constructs a conceptual and normative framework for policy‐oriented discussions of environmental uncertainty and risk. Human‐caused environmental risks are unavoidable in a technologically and economically advanced society. Contemporary environmentalists deploy ecological and ethical axioms to structure the debate over environmental uncertainty and risk management. They adopt the “imperative of sustainability” and the “precautionary …
Foucault's Triple Murder and the Modern Development of Power
Michel Foucault offered his readers an “analytics of power” and later began a “genealogy of the subject.” The two tasks were related, and both were premised on Foucault's rejection of traditional modes of political thought or reason. This article explores Foucault's attack on political rationality, something here called Foucault's triple murder: that is, his rejection of the role played in political thought by the ideas of sovereignty, History (a…
Enhancing and promoting interdisciplinarity in higher education
A (Political) Philosopher by Any Other Name: The Roots of Heidegger’s Thought
Evolutionary Narratives and Ecological Ethics
We are in trouble just now because we do not have a good story. We are in between stories. The old story, the account of how the world came to be and how we fit into it, is no longer effective. Yet we have not learned the new story.... We need a story that will educate us, a story that will heal, guide, and discipline us. Thomas Berry, The Dream of the Earth
Twilight of Modernity: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Politics
En s'inspirant de Martin Heidegger, l'A. affirme que la perception de Nietzsche, en tant que destructeur de la metaphysique et saboteur de toute ethique ayant des fondements metaphysiques, obscurcit autant qu'elle eclaircit la philosophie nietzscheenne et le dilemme politique postmoderne
Reading Nietzsche and Foucault: A Hermeneutics of Suspicion
To what extent and in what respects does the political thought of Michel Foucault reflect the influence of Friedrich Nietzsche's ideas? In the September 1990 issue of thisReview, Leslie Paul Thiele firmly asserted Nietzschean roots for Foucault's thought. In thisControversy, Thiele's claims are disputed by J. Scott Johnson. Johnson argues that Foucault's theory is rooted as much in Marx as in Nietzsche and that Foucault himself refuted Thiele's i…
Human rights at the “end of nature”
Nature has been employed as a moral concept across the millennia. Human rights are beholden to nature as a normative standard, as they developed within a tradition of natural law and natural rights. Should contemporary advocates of human rights continue to deploy the standard of nature at a time when both its physical and metaphysical statuses are increasingly challenged? I argue that the life sciences help us understand human rights in terms of …
Post-sovereign power and leadership
The Web We Weave: Online Education and Democratic Prospects
Near the end of The Public and Its Problems, John Dewey writes that the consummation of democracy will involve the art of full communication. The internet might appear to fulfill Dewey’s vision, increasing opportunities for inquiry, interaction, and renewal through the social construction of meaning. Yet certain forms of technologically mediated communication threaten the development of much needed skills for democracy. While citizenship educatio…
Common Sense, Judgment, and the Limits of Political Theory
Nature and Freedom: A Heideggerian Critique of Biocentric and Sociocentric Environmentalism
Foucault's Triple Murder and the Modern Development of Power
Michel Foucault offered his readers an “analytics of power” and later began a “genealogy of the subject.” The two tasks were related, and both were premised on Foucault's rejection of traditional modes of political thought or reason. This article explores Foucault's attack on political rationality, something here called Foucault's triple murder: that is, his rejection of the role played in political thought by the ideas of sovereignty, History (a…
Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of the Soul: A Study of Heroic Individualism
The Agony of Politics: The Nietzschean Roots of Foucault's Thought
The politics of Michel Foucault remain controversial, mainly because they remain ambiguous. His critics charge that the ambiguity is symptomatic of a theory that fosters moral abandon and political impotence. This predicament is frequently attributed to Nietzsche's influence. I outline the critics' charges and investigate to what extent Foucault's thought evidences Nietzschean roots. Specifically, I examine Nietzsche's glorification of struggle a…
Reading Nietzsche and Foucault: A Hermeneutics of Suspicion
To what extent and in what respects does the political thought of Michel Foucault reflect the influence of Friedrich Nietzsche's ideas? In the September 1990 issue of thisReview, Leslie Paul Thiele firmly asserted Nietzschean roots for Foucault's thought. In thisControversy, Thiele's claims are disputed by J. Scott Johnson. Johnson argues that Foucault's theory is rooted as much in Marx as in Nietzsche and that Foucault himself refuted Thiele's i…
Making Democracy Safe for the World: Social Movements and Global Politics
Social movements are phenomena that defy clear definition. They have an observable life, albeit one not completely quantifiable, which is characterized by the sustained interaction of individuals. They are probably best understood as fluid amalgams whose size, constitution, and course is determined largely by the social, cultural, and political terrain over which they pass, and which they stimulate and absorb. They are composites whose membership…
From Outrage to Action: The Politics of Grass-Roots Dissent. Laura R. Woliver Restoring Real Democracy. Robert C. Grady
Twilight of Modernity: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Politics
En s'inspirant de Martin Heidegger, l'A. affirme que la perception de Nietzsche, en tant que destructeur de la metaphysique et saboteur de toute ethique ayant des fondements metaphysiques, obscurcit autant qu'elle eclaircit la philosophie nietzscheenne et le dilemme politique postmoderne
Heidegger on Freedom: Political not Metaphysical
This essay analyzes modern and postmodern concepts of freedom and contrasts them to a Heideggerian understanding. Positive, negative, and what might be called Foucaultian or Nietzschean liberty are demonstrated to bear a common trait. In such modern and postmodern formulations, freedom is consistently identified with a form of mastery. This identification of freedom with mastery, I argue, encourages ecological abuse, supports the dangerous prerog…
Nature and Freedom: A Heideggerian Critique of Biocentric and Sociocentric Environmentalism
Nietzsche: The ethics of an immoralist
Heidegger, History, and Hermeneutics Heidegger, Dilthey, and the Crisis of Historicism. Charles R. Bambach Martin Heidegger and the Problem of Historical Meaning. Jeffrey Andrew Barash Heidegger et so…
Postmodernity and the Routinization of Novelty: Heidegger on Boredom and Technology
Postmodernity is characterized by the routinization of novelty, evidenced in the drive for technological change that makes constant demands on and is constantly demanded by postmodern publics and elites. Martin Heidegger sees this technological drive as sustained by the basic mood of our times: profound boredom. Though Heidegger's analysis of moods, and particularly his account of boredom, have largely been ignored, his assessment of boredom prov…
Learning the Lesson of Interdependence
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Evolutionary Narratives and Ecological Ethics
We are in trouble just now because we do not have a good story. We are in between stories. The old story, the account of how the world came to be and how we fit into it, is no longer effective. Yet we have not learned the new story.... We need a story that will educate us, a story that will heal, guide, and discipline us. Thomas Berry, The Dream of the Earth
De Geus, M. 1999. Ecological Utopias: Envisioning the Sustainable Society. International Books, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Thiele, L. 2000. de Geus, M. 1999. Ecological Utopias: Envisioning the Sustainable Society. International Books, Utrecht, The Netherlands.. Conservation Ecology 4(1):18. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-00154-040118
Common Sense, Judgment, and the Limits of Political Theory
Limiting Risks: Environmental Ethics as a Policy Primer
This article constructs a conceptual and normative framework for policy‐oriented discussions of environmental uncertainty and risk. Human‐caused environmental risks are unavoidable in a technologically and economically advanced society. Contemporary environmentalists deploy ecological and ethical axioms to structure the debate over environmental uncertainty and risk management. They adopt the “imperative of sustainability” and the “precautionary …
Making Social Science Matter: Why Social Inquiry Fails and How It Can Succeed Again. Bent Flyvbjerg
A (Political) Philosopher by Any Other Name: The Roots of Heidegger’s Thought
Judging Hannah Arendt: A Reply to Zerilli
The Nature of Political Theory
The Nature of Political Theory. By Andrew Vincent. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 354p. $65.00.Survey texts exercise considerable violence upon the thinkers and works they assess. Andrew Vincent is no pacifist. Yet his book succeeds admirably in gaining breadth without unduly sacrificing depth and subtlety. Vincent's encyclopedic knowledge (with more than 500 titles in the bibliography) is coupled with a sharp critical eye and refreshingl…
Nihilism and Emancipation: Ethics, Politics, and Law
Nihilism and Emancipation: Ethics, Politics, and Law. By Gianni Vattimo. Edited by Santiago Zabala. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. 160p. $25.50 cloth, $18.00 paper. Gianni Vattimo is an Italian social democratic politician, a newspaper columnist, a philosopher, a strong advocate of an integrated Europe ... and a proud nihilist. Richard Rorty, who supplies the laudatory foreword to Nihilism and Emancipation, characterizes Vattimo as es…
The Ontology of Action: Arendt and the Role of Narrative
The Ontology of ActionArendt and the Role of Narrative Leslie Paul Thiele (bio) Hannah Arendt is best known for her trenchant analysis and original evaluation of political life. The sine qua non of politics is human action, which she celebrates above all other human capacities. Arendt equates action with freedom. Action in concert is identified as power. As the key element of power and the meaning of freedom, action brings about and preserves the…
Indra's Net and the Midas Touch: Living Sustainably in a Connected World
An exploration of the impact of unintended consequences in an interdependent world and of the opportunities for creativity and community. We live today in a global web of interdependence, connected technologically, economically, politically, and socially. As a result of these expanding and deepening interdependencies, it has become impossible fully to control-or foretell-the effects of our actions. The world is rife with unintended consequences. …
Politics and Biology: A Discussion of Peter K. Hatemi and Rose McDermott's Man Is by Nature a Political Animal: Evolution, Biology, and Politics
Man Is by Nature a Political Animal: Evolution, Biology, and Politics. Edited by Peter K. Hatemi and Rose McDermott. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2011. 352p. $80.00 cloth, $27.50 paper. Peter K. Hatemi and Rose McDermott's Man Is by Nature a Political Animal brings together some of the most important social scientists working at the intersection of political science, psychology, biology, and cognitive neuroscience. Given recent advan…
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