Paul Rekret
Biographic Data
| ID | 281395 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Rekret |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Rekret |
| SIGNATURE | REKRET P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Richmond American International University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9022-5817 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Sensuous Abstraction
Clipped Coins, Abused Words, and Civil Government
‘Melodies wander around as ghosts’
The Head, the Hand, and Matter
This article seeks to examine the political connotations of a recent 'material turn' in social and political theory and its implications for theorizations of political agency. 'New materialist' theories are premised upon transcending the limits which social constructivism places upon thought, viewed as a reification of the division of subject and object and so a hubristic anthropocentrism which places human beings at the centre of social existenc…
The sovereignty of sovereignty and the restricted object of critical IR
This is a reply to:Mercier, Thomas Clement. 2016. “Resisting legitimacy: Weber, Derrida, and the fallibility of sovereign power.” Global Discourse 6 (3): 374–391. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2016.1151729
A critique of new materialism
From Political Topographies to Political Logics
This paper engages with the question of the historical and ontological status of the logics of hegemony articulated by Ernesto Laclau.It interrogates the concept of real abstraction that Laclau mobilises to explain the historical status of his theory.It is argued that while Laclau grounds his conceptual system in an ontology of generalised antagonism, this is done to the exclusion of formally conceiving the historical conditions of those logics.T…
The Impasse of Post-Metaphysical Political Theory
Introduction 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…
A critique of new materialism
The Head, the Hand, and Matter
This article seeks to examine the political connotations of a recent 'material turn' in social and political theory and its implications for theorizations of political agency. 'New materialist' theories are premised upon transcending the limits which social constructivism places upon thought, viewed as a reification of the division of subject and object and so a hubristic anthropocentrism which places human beings at the centre of social existenc…
From Political Topographies to Political Logics
This paper engages with the question of the historical and ontological status of the logics of hegemony articulated by Ernesto Laclau.It interrogates the concept of real abstraction that Laclau mobilises to explain the historical status of his theory.It is argued that while Laclau grounds his conceptual system in an ontology of generalised antagonism, this is done to the exclusion of formally conceiving the historical conditions of those logics.T…
The Impasse of Post-Metaphysical Political Theory
Introduction 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…
The sovereignty of sovereignty and the restricted object of critical IR
This is a reply to:Mercier, Thomas Clement. 2016. “Resisting legitimacy: Weber, Derrida, and the fallibility of sovereign power.” Global Discourse 6 (3): 374–391. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2016.1151729
A critique of new materialism
From Political Topographies to Political Logics
This paper engages with the question of the historical and ontological status of the logics of hegemony articulated by Ernesto Laclau.It interrogates the concept of real abstraction that Laclau mobilises to explain the historical status of his theory.It is argued that while Laclau grounds his conceptual system in an ontology of generalised antagonism, this is done to the exclusion of formally conceiving the historical conditions of those logics.T…
The Head, the Hand, and Matter
This article seeks to examine the political connotations of a recent 'material turn' in social and political theory and its implications for theorizations of political agency. 'New materialist' theories are premised upon transcending the limits which social constructivism places upon thought, viewed as a reification of the division of subject and object and so a hubristic anthropocentrism which places human beings at the centre of social existenc…
‘Melodies wander around as ghosts’
Clipped Coins, Abused Words, and Civil Government
Sensuous Abstraction
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