Post-political ontologies and the problems of anti-anthropocentrism

Reply to Tsouvalis

Dados Bibliográficos

ID13006552
AutoresDavid Chandler (0000-0002-2766-7169, University of Westminster, autor correspondente)
Ano2015
Volume6
Fascículo1
Páginas40-42
Data de publicação2015-02-24
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGlobal Discourse (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2043-7897 • E-ISSN: 2326-9995
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/23269995.2015.1011935
OpenAlexW1983896125
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas8

Judith Tsouvalis mounts a lively and interesting critique of the post-foundational Left’s theorisations through the marshalling of Latourian insights into the possibilities for a more grounded, pragmatic and concrete approach to political action. Tsouvalis takes Latour’s appropriation of John Dewey’s philosophical pragmatism (classically stated in the 1927 [1954] work, The Public and Its Problems) to argue that problems enable Dingpolitik – object or problem-orientated politics – through assembling concrete plural publics around matters of shared concern and contestation. She counter positions this pragmatic politics of concern, through which new communities of understanding are formed, to the abstract and ‘anthropomorphic’ critiques of the ‘post-political condition’ which offer little in the way of a constructive engagement in the collective making of a better world

Anthropocentrism · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism