Luke Philip Plotica
Biographic Data
| ID | 4376925 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luke Philip Plotica |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luke Philip |
| FAMILY NAME | Plotica |
| SIGNATURE | PLOTICA L P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Tech |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5888-6030 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Fight for (Free) Time
The human condition is an ineluctably temporal condition, and yet political theory has rarely and indirectly grappled with concepts, practices, and problems regarding time. Two notable recent exceptions are books by Julie L. Rose and Nichole Marie Shippen, both of which argue that free or discretionary time ought to be included in political considerations of justice. While their respective projects are valuable in themselves, their limitations al…
Nineteenth-Century Individualism and the Market Economy
Conservatism
Conservatism is a family of doctrines that emphasizes human imperfection, tradition, social holism, hierarchy, the particularity of each society, and the historicity, continuity, and conservation of social order. Emerging in Western Europe as a response to the Enlightenment and the social upheavals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, conservatism has since become one of the dominant social and political ideologies. In the mid‐twentieth ce…
Social Contract
The social contract is a concept employed in Western political and social thought to provide an account of the origin and/or logical structure of political society and its governing institutions. Social contract theories vary widely in their formulations and objectives, yet they all employ the legalistic notion of a voluntary, reciprocal, and binding agreement among free and equal individuals in order to describe the nature, foundation, and scope…
Federalism, Devolution, and Liberty
For much of the twentieth century the landscape of American federalism was characterized by accumulation of power by the national government. In recent decades influential political and legal thinkers have called for devolution of governmental power to the states and localities, where, they argue, such powers properly belong and are more effectively exercised. One of the recurrent argumentative tropes in the devolutionary literature maintains tha…
Singing Oneself or Living Deliberately
The individual stands at the center of the works of Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau. Prompted to their reflections by the changing social, economic, and political conditions of nineteenth century America, they articulate two rich and distinct visions of individuality and the conditions that foster and frustrate its development. Whitman’s poetry and prose depicts a porous, malleable, internally plural self who experiences the world in largely…
Thoreau and the Politics of Ordinary Actions
Many regard Henry David Thoreau as an apolitical or even antipolitical thinker, concerned above all with his personal moral purity, and thus unresponsive and irresponsible towards the society in which he lived. Contrary to this received interpretation, I argue that Thoreau’s life and work articulates a robust and complex doctrine of intersubjective responsibility and political agency. Although he denies individual responsibility to institutions a…
This Is Simply What I Do”
Ludwig Wittgenstein and Michael Oakeshott are often labeled conservative thinkers, and taken to theorize rigid limits to individual agency and criticism. Tracing several modes of affinity between the work of Wittgenstein and Oakeshott, one can recognize the conventionality and rule-governed character of linguistic practices and yet affirm a deeply individualistic account of agency and action. Each thinker respectively characterizes the individual…
Deliberation or Conversation
In recent years, scholars have begun to explore the democratic valences of Michael Oakeshott's political thought. Commentators generally present him either as a skeptical and reluctant democrat or as an advocate of deliberative democracy. This article contends that Oakeshott criticizes some epistemological and substantive commitments that are characteristic of deliberative theories, yet his vision of democracy is more robust than skeptical reader…
The Fight for (Free) Time
The human condition is an ineluctably temporal condition, and yet political theory has rarely and indirectly grappled with concepts, practices, and problems regarding time. Two notable recent exceptions are books by Julie L. Rose and Nichole Marie Shippen, both of which argue that free or discretionary time ought to be included in political considerations of justice. While their respective projects are valuable in themselves, their limitations al…
Thoreau and the Politics of Ordinary Actions
Many regard Henry David Thoreau as an apolitical or even antipolitical thinker, concerned above all with his personal moral purity, and thus unresponsive and irresponsible towards the society in which he lived. Contrary to this received interpretation, I argue that Thoreau’s life and work articulates a robust and complex doctrine of intersubjective responsibility and political agency. Although he denies individual responsibility to institutions a…
Federalism, Devolution, and Liberty
For much of the twentieth century the landscape of American federalism was characterized by accumulation of power by the national government. In recent decades influential political and legal thinkers have called for devolution of governmental power to the states and localities, where, they argue, such powers properly belong and are more effectively exercised. One of the recurrent argumentative tropes in the devolutionary literature maintains tha…
Deliberation or Conversation
In recent years, scholars have begun to explore the democratic valences of Michael Oakeshott's political thought. Commentators generally present him either as a skeptical and reluctant democrat or as an advocate of deliberative democracy. This article contends that Oakeshott criticizes some epistemological and substantive commitments that are characteristic of deliberative theories, yet his vision of democracy is more robust than skeptical reader…
Deliberation or Conversation
In recent years, scholars have begun to explore the democratic valences of Michael Oakeshott's political thought. Commentators generally present him either as a skeptical and reluctant democrat or as an advocate of deliberative democracy. This article contends that Oakeshott criticizes some epistemological and substantive commitments that are characteristic of deliberative theories, yet his vision of democracy is more robust than skeptical reader…
This Is Simply What I Do”
Ludwig Wittgenstein and Michael Oakeshott are often labeled conservative thinkers, and taken to theorize rigid limits to individual agency and criticism. Tracing several modes of affinity between the work of Wittgenstein and Oakeshott, one can recognize the conventionality and rule-governed character of linguistic practices and yet affirm a deeply individualistic account of agency and action. Each thinker respectively characterizes the individual…
Thoreau and the Politics of Ordinary Actions
Many regard Henry David Thoreau as an apolitical or even antipolitical thinker, concerned above all with his personal moral purity, and thus unresponsive and irresponsible towards the society in which he lived. Contrary to this received interpretation, I argue that Thoreau’s life and work articulates a robust and complex doctrine of intersubjective responsibility and political agency. Although he denies individual responsibility to institutions a…
Conservatism
Conservatism is a family of doctrines that emphasizes human imperfection, tradition, social holism, hierarchy, the particularity of each society, and the historicity, continuity, and conservation of social order. Emerging in Western Europe as a response to the Enlightenment and the social upheavals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, conservatism has since become one of the dominant social and political ideologies. In the mid‐twentieth ce…
Social Contract
The social contract is a concept employed in Western political and social thought to provide an account of the origin and/or logical structure of political society and its governing institutions. Social contract theories vary widely in their formulations and objectives, yet they all employ the legalistic notion of a voluntary, reciprocal, and binding agreement among free and equal individuals in order to describe the nature, foundation, and scope…
Federalism, Devolution, and Liberty
For much of the twentieth century the landscape of American federalism was characterized by accumulation of power by the national government. In recent decades influential political and legal thinkers have called for devolution of governmental power to the states and localities, where, they argue, such powers properly belong and are more effectively exercised. One of the recurrent argumentative tropes in the devolutionary literature maintains tha…
Singing Oneself or Living Deliberately
The individual stands at the center of the works of Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau. Prompted to their reflections by the changing social, economic, and political conditions of nineteenth century America, they articulate two rich and distinct visions of individuality and the conditions that foster and frustrate its development. Whitman’s poetry and prose depicts a porous, malleable, internally plural self who experiences the world in largely…
Nineteenth-Century Individualism and the Market Economy
The Fight for (Free) Time
The human condition is an ineluctably temporal condition, and yet political theory has rarely and indirectly grappled with concepts, practices, and problems regarding time. Two notable recent exceptions are books by Julie L. Rose and Nichole Marie Shippen, both of which argue that free or discretionary time ought to be included in political considerations of justice. While their respective projects are valuable in themselves, their limitations al…
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