Post-metaphysical culture and politics

Richard Rorty and Laclau and Mouffe

Bibliographic Data

ID2160489
AuthorsGlyn Daly
Year1994
Volume23
Issue2
Pages173-200
Publication date1994-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEconomy and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0308-5147 • E-ISSN: 1469-5766
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03085149400000002
OpenAlexW2084598892
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited11

This paper explores the implications of a post-metaphysical culture for our understanding of truth, objectivity and politics. In particular, it focuses on the influential work of Richard Rorty and Laclau and Mouffe and examines some of the chief criticisms which have been made ot it. Our argument is that a post- Barthesian terms) from a readerly to a writerly perspective on democracy and modernity; and (ii) to secure the themses of authoprial and discursive violence as indispensable to the development of writerly (and post-modern) democracy. In this context we identify crucial theoretical and political differences between the two parties. Rorty's ‘liberal utopia’, we argue,re-introduces an essentialdichotomic language which is both inconsistent and inhibitive of the politics of the democratic challenge. On these grounds, we affirm the post-Marxist (anti-utopianist) argument concerning the constitutive and ineradicable nature of power and antagonisms as the very condition for meeting this challenge and for advancing a new vision of democratic community, citizenship and individuality

Epistemology · Metaphysics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education · Law · Philosophy

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