Towards a Post-Modern Understanding of the Political: From Genealogy to Hermeneutics

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Preface and Acknowledgements......Page 10
Modernity and humanism......Page 12
Liberalism and modernity......Page 19
Utilitarianism: redemption of deontological liberalism......Page 26
Why Marxism can not be an alternative to modernity and liberalism......Page 31
Introduction to the argument: genealogy versus hermeneutics......Page 36
Nietzsche\'s genealogy......Page 41
Foucault on genealogy and power......Page 53
Characterising kitsch......Page 69
The genealogy of kitsch......Page 76
Kitsch and the political: the case of consumer democracy......Page 96
Two conflicting accounts of hermeneutics: Ricoeur versus Gadamer......Page 106
MacIntyre\'s contribution to hermeneutics......Page 118
The case of Enlightenment: MacIntyre against Kant......Page 127
Conflicts between traditions......Page 132
MacIntyre\'s Thomism: the politics of common good......Page 144
Hermeneutic politics: Ekklesia as the locus of post-modern politics......Page 156
Genealogy versus hermeneutics: power over meaning against meaning over power......Page 174
Why genealogy cannot form a basis for another tradition......Page 182
Hermeneutics, metaphysics, and the political......Page 189
Notes......Page 196
Bibliography......Page 218
G......Page 225
N......Page 226
Z......Page 227