History of political thought at a standstill: Abensour, constellations and textual alterity

This article suggests that the philosophical contributions of the French democratic theorist Miguel Abensour offer a unique model for the practice of the history of political thought. Under the influence of the first generation of Frankfurt School critical theory, Abensour can be seen as applying a...

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Main Author: Holman, Christopher
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1703492023-09-08T04:07:47Z History of political thought at a standstill: Abensour, constellations and textual alterity Holman, Christopher School of Social Sciences Social sciences::Political science Miguel Abensour Frankfurt School This article suggests that the philosophical contributions of the French democratic theorist Miguel Abensour offer a unique model for the practice of the history of political thought. Under the influence of the first generation of Frankfurt School critical theory, Abensour can be seen as applying a method of thinking in constellations to the study of historical texts, the critical rearrangement of conceptual elements drawn from the latter generating new dialectical images that reveal something previously obscured about the object of investigation. The history of political thought on this model is less about the recuperation of a definite textual intelligibility than the revelation of social and political alterity. Ministry of Education (MOE) This work was funded by Singapore Ministry of Education AcRF Tier 1 Grant, RG70/18. 2023-09-08T04:07:47Z 2023-09-08T04:07:47Z 2022 Journal Article Holman, C. (2022). History of political thought at a standstill: Abensour, constellations and textual alterity. Philosophy and Social Criticism. https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01914537221088343 0191-4537 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/170349 10.1177/01914537221088343 2-s2.0-85128587833 en RG70/18 Philosophy and Social Criticism © 2022 The Author(s). All rights reserved.
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Frankfurt School
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History of political thought at a standstill: Abensour, constellations and textual alterity
description This article suggests that the philosophical contributions of the French democratic theorist Miguel Abensour offer a unique model for the practice of the history of political thought. Under the influence of the first generation of Frankfurt School critical theory, Abensour can be seen as applying a method of thinking in constellations to the study of historical texts, the critical rearrangement of conceptual elements drawn from the latter generating new dialectical images that reveal something previously obscured about the object of investigation. The history of political thought on this model is less about the recuperation of a definite textual intelligibility than the revelation of social and political alterity.
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title_fullStr History of political thought at a standstill: Abensour, constellations and textual alterity
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